Allowing US companies to serve people relevant ads and allowing US companies to aid our number one adversary in developing the most potentially dangerous technology humans will every create are two very different things.
> Allowing US companies to serve people relevant ads
Except these companies do way more than just serve innocent ads, as the Snowden reveals have showed; They are complicit in way more than that.
As someone from outside either country, neither the US nor China developing AI sounds particularly appealing.
Convince me that mass surveillance in a genocidal police state is not one of the most potentially dangerous technologies humans will ever create.
They can, but don't. Applying specific restrictions and switching from small fines to business-continuity-affecting rulings would solve the issue very quickly.
Or they don't because they can't? Those that would be inclined would never receive the funds and media support needed to get elected.