Never underestimate the pull in politics for calls to "protect the children", stop x-ism/x-phobia/etc, foreign boogiemen, or lack of control by law enforcement/Intel agencies... or merely the revolving door that will start once companies like OpenAI become massive and their ex "AI ethics" execs are the ones writing the policy to protect us all from ourselves.
These sorts of "public/private" control patterns and the destruction of competition while maintaining private monopoly control in the pursuit of "safety"/"equity" is America's most reliable religion.
HN is always full of people pushing for it in one way or the other, so it's not entirely foreign to us either. Nor something we can merely blame on politicians or some intentional conspiracy by a subset of the population.
These sorts of "public/private" control patterns and the destruction of competition while maintaining private monopoly control in the pursuit of "safety"/"equity" is America's most reliable religion.
HN is always full of people pushing for it in one way or the other, so it's not entirely foreign to us either. Nor something we can merely blame on politicians or some intentional conspiracy by a subset of the population.