Block inbound TCP segments with ACK=0 vs Block inbound TCP segments with SYN=1, how are they same?

Blocking inbound TCP segments with ACK=0
Blocking inbound TCP segments with SYN=1

Both prevent external clients from making TCP connections to internal clients, but allow internal clients to connect to outside. How?
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