Tax is one thing, permission to physically leave is entirely another issue.

In many countries like "Iron Curtain" back in the day, or Cuba now, or China now... yeah, the USA feels close. If Exit Visa does not come up on your search look up Exit Ban.

If we extrapolate Fable 5 export bans, why not ban the US-citizen researchers from export? It's what the CCP does for theirs'.

I know what an exit visa is. Anyone with any contact with cuba, venezuela, china in the past decades would know. To believe that export control = path to exit visa is an insult to those who actually lived those restrictions and ignorant of past export control restrictions.

Well, I escaped an authorization regime. The USA appears to be another one all of a sudden. I cannot believe what is happening, but it is very much incoming. All the signals are here:

One true party: check

Pay to play: check

Journalism destroyed: check

Scientists defunded: check

I have seen this playbook before. This is what we escaped from. What in the actual f is happening?

US already bans us nationals from working PRC semi, same with TW, there's functionally already talent ban.