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JPMorgan cut Hong Kong staff off from Claude on June 18, weeks after Goldman did the same. The reason wasn't security — it was licensing fine print. That is how a vague export control the courts would never uphold gets enforced anyway: by private compliance teams.

On June 12 a Commerce letter switched off two Anthropic models worldwide. Strip the news and a harder question remains: can you export-control software at all? America tried once before, on encryption, and lost in court. This control fails on the same three layers.