[theptip]

Every company is free to determine its terms of use. If USG doesn’t like them they should sign a contract with someone else.

[grosswait]

Every company is free to state their terms of use, but not all have been upheld when challenged

[otterley]

What’s your angle here? I’m genuinely curious. If the government told you that you had to muck out portable bathrooms with your bare hands even if you didn’t want to, wouldn’t you find that objectionable?

[theptip]

What grounds for challenge do you imagine here?

[blitzar]

> Every company *

* excludes tiktok

[alex43578]

Can I run a business and say “No use by insert race here”? If they don’t like it, they can shop somewhere else, right?

[theptip]

Of course not, nor can you write a contract that places your customers in indentured servitude. Those would be illegal contractual terms.

But this is irrelevant to the case we are discussing, where Anthropic used legal contractual terms, and the government willingly signed them, then demanded they be changed after the fact.

[FrancisMoodie]

Ofcourse we're gonna compare being against the use of technology for Mass surveillance/Autonomous weapons with being racist, like wtf kind of argument is this? So because businesses can't implement racist policies they shouldn't be allowed to have any policies concerning the use of their tech? Mindblowing.