> Perhaps the US administration is gambling that US citizens on their own provide enough of a training data and revenue flywheel for them to keep their AI development edge.

There is no way to enforce access of one and not the other, not with the state of tech in the US (and most countries without a great firewall). Bypassing such controls is as easy as a pilfered credit card (or some other american-looking payment method) and a vpn - both trivial to come by.

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gmueckl 2 hours ago | parent [-]

It may not be perfect, but this hurdle would still keep out ~99% of the targeted people.

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pksebben an hour ago | parent [-]

Genuinely curious - who do you think the targeted people are and how would this keep them out?

	▲	gmueckl an hour ago \| parent [-]
		For the sake of this discussion, I'm going with the nationalistic vibe of the order: anybody who isn't a citizen of the USA (presumably to limit risk of AI-supported action against the US?). But that in itself is telling in a way: if national security was a true concern, access should be limited to people who passed background checks.