The more locked down these models are, the slower their development will accelerate. Imagine trying to build MOSFETs but being banned from using them in violent or sexually inappropriate use cases. No missile guidance or porn allowed on this silicon!
>No missile guidance or porn allowed on this silicon!
Not exactly silicon, but Microchip (at least used to) require you fill in a paper ITAR form for their encryption libraries, stating you weren't making missile guidance systems amongst other things.
There is, as yet, no human society without its own sacred cows. (Or, rather, "norms for public discourse.")
In China, you don't publicly criticize the Communist Party of China or Xi Jinping himself -- not unless you've got very good reason, and perhaps even then.
In the West, you don't publicly criticize... well... let's not go there.
Point is: Ernie being locked-down in this manner is absolutely normal, not unusual or aberrant.
I did not get the sense that was what they were saying at all. Only that there are certainly sacred cows we are not allowed to speak of; I may add that several of them are extremely rapid and recent additions.
