It is much worse. I hope I am reading it wrong, but:

The term ‘‘technology’’ […] includes […] any semiconductor, circuit board, operating system, graphics processing unit, central processing unit, tenor processing unit, field-programmable gate array, random access memory, hard drive, solid-state drive, dataflow architecture, or cloud-computing service, that is manufactured, designed, developed, supplied, deployed, completed, […] [etc.] to function artificial intelligence […] and any other hardware, software, equipment, device, component, robotic computer, processor, network […] that is manufactured, designed, developed, supplied, deployed, […] [etc.] to function artificial intelligence or generative artificial intelligence.

This would mean that importing and exporting literally any piece of IT equipment, from a Ubuntu installer to a RAM chip, is illegal. Good luck & have fun.

Torrenting is going to be wild in 2025.

This is designed to stop businesses to use locally deployed models and be forced to deploy cloud services by any of the removed that sat frontlins in the inauguration.

So, only the rest of the world gets superior technology.

The investors will love that.

Oh what’s that? Yeah that’s Barbara Streisand’s house

Well, now I’m downloading them all and backing them up.

And the ones I can, I’m going to fork on GitHub just so they have my name.

Bring it on.

In other news, Chinese restaurants will serve only burgers, fries and shakes, and will be called Freedom restaurants.

Had to lookup the penalties since this document just pointed somewhere else:

(a) In General.–Section 206 of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1705) is amended to read as follows:

SEC. 206. PENALTIES.

• (a) Unlawful Acts.–It shall be unlawful for a person to violate, attempt to violate, conspire to violate, or cause a violation of any license, order, regulation, or prohibition issued under this title.
• (b) Civil Penalty.–A civil penalty may be imposed on any person who commits an unlawful act described in subsection (a) in an amount not to exceed the greater of–
  • (1) $250,000; or
  • (2) an amount that is twice the amount of the transaction that is the basis of the violation with respect to which the penalty is imposed.
• © Criminal Penalty.–A person who willfully commits, willfully attempts to commit, or willfully conspires to commit, or aids or abets in the commission of, an unlawful act described in subsection (a) shall, upon conviction, be fined not more than $1,000,000, or if a natural person, may be imprisoned for not more than 20 years, or both.‘’.

https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-110publ96/html/PLAW-110publ96.htm

These fucking clowns just refuse to learn about how technology works. Fucking morons.

Ah, the supporters of the free market strike again. No competition allowed, Sam Altman and his American billionaire peers are entitled to all the money.

What next? Outlaw chinese food?

Yeah, we should only be allowed to download their social media apps?

This country is so cooked.

Lol, protectionism for the administration’s fellators.

Bad chinaman used the free market to hurt american oligarchs so they got their regime removed in congress to restrict MY access to the good shit?!

Pathetic…

And frankly, it is the internet and model is open source. Get fucked daddy Sam.