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UncleEntityyesterday at 11:20 PM2 repliesview on HN

Fairly certain all those have "acts of congress" attached to them. I mean, it used to take a constitutional amendment to make something illegal but now we have tons of agencies responsible for regulating all the things.

Plus, they're relying on the "math is a weapon" law to ban "export" of the models.


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delichonyesterday at 11:26 PM

Congress passed the Arms Export Control Act (22 USC 2778) in the Ford administration and it has been applied to software since at least the Clinton administration.

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skywhopperyesterday at 11:35 PM

It has never taken a constitutional amendment to make something illegal.

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