Tap any point. Each one carries its real status and a source — scrub the whole pattern.
The fears, steel-manned, then rated honestly.
Every restriction above works at the same single point: your dependence on a US-controlled provider, chip, or a model you don't own. The export rules govern transfer, provision, and shipment — so a model already on your own disk is outside all of it, by construction.
Own the weights, run them local, and there is no gate to be denied at. Frontier-class open-weight models are explicitly carved out of the controls — downloadable by anyone, anywhere, no geo-check, no ID:
That's not a workaround you have to trust — it's the structural design of the rules. The more the gated internet asks for ID, the more a sovereign, owned, offline stack is worth.
Primary and primary-adjacent. Read them yourself — that's the point.