Sky news report: https://news.sky.com/story/chatgpt-banned-in-italy-pending-data-protection-investigation-12846566 I wonder if other countries will follow.
If you can't beat them or are caught flat footed and need to catch up (Elon and Woz in this case) it's common to call on the government to slow down the competition. I don't think it will work in this case.