Yeah but that's not what happened at all. The government said limit access to US citizens. Anthropic could have chosen compliance or even malicious compliance (are you a US citizen - please tick yes or no). And such a response from Anthropic would have required the government to try to crack down even harder which would have made them look even worse, and Anthropic even better. Instead Anthropic chose to over-comply and looks just as bad the government here, especially with somewhat transparent ulterior motives driving their behavior.