I think government wanted more control and Microsoft is more willing to rollover. I believe this is a setup. I also believe government is freaking out over the power of AI and want to control it. The powers that be did not plan over drastic productivity increasing tool in the hands of anyone that signs up. They missed controlling the internet and the personal computer. This is at least as big in potential.
First of all don’t expose a machine on your LAN unless it is very well locked down especially with respect to ability to access rest of LAN. To simply access home LAN set up home VPN that has the access instead of opening up a port as powerful as ssh. If you open ssh then put it at some other port than the well known 22 and make it accessible by authorized key only. I would further limit where this ssh can be accessed from using firewall rules.