Remove the political spin, which i agree is heavy, and just read it as 'these things happened', over several administrations, on both sides, for decades.  It's pretty scary what the are setting us up for.  TLDR;  the passing of laws and orders to be so vague that if you even think of publicly agreeing with a "unapproved" group, and not falling in line as you are ordered to by the feds, you might go to prison too. 

https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/trump-nspm-7-repression/

Well darn. Huggingface ( the GitHub of the AI world ) is about to be bought and stuck behind a walled garden.   I figured the US government would lock them down first, but no, greed won this round.

https://thenextweb.com/news/hugging-face-exploring-sale-13bn-valuation

Well, that is interesting. Never heard of this one before.  Back in 1996 a federal "The Alien Terrorist Removal Court" was created.  Ok, so terrorists are bad i agree, and it sounds ok from the surface, tho odd its 'dedicated'.

But..  I guess everything the court will do is classified, no review, no oversight, no public knowledge of proceedings, nothing.   I guess it has not been used until this summer ( seems odd 30 years sitting dormant.... makes it sound more like political preparation for something to come later ) and its so secretive, that the attorneys of the accused were not even allowed to see the evidence against their client.  

This is not good. There are books about this sort of path. 

And just ran across this today. The lock-down has begun it sounds like.   Someone was complaining on huggingface ( the GitHub for AI ) that an org was no restricting their converted model files to most of the western world.  If this expands this will really suck for us and we will fall behind and be tied down by the AI elite here in the states..

"Certain open-weight AI models—such as the MiniMax H3 Community License Agreement—exclude the United States, European Union, United Kingdom, and South Korea from their default distribution rights due to compliance, export control, or legal risk mitigation strategies"