Does an AI Decoupling Bill Run Into the First Amendment?

DeepSeek's sudden popularity produced every kind of reaction. The response from American politics was especially rich in accidental comedy.

One of the strangest examples came from Senator Josh Hawley and his Decoupling America's Artificial Intelligence Capabilities from China Act of 2025. Set aside the geopolitics, the prospect of international conflict and the usual national-security arguments for a moment. A narrower question interests me more: does the bill itself collide with the First Amendment of the United States Constitution?