[rushcar]

"Effective immediately, no contractor, supplier, or partner that does business with the United States military may conduct any commercial activity with Anthropic."

This is authoritarian behavior. You're having trouble negotiating a contract, so instead of just canceling it - you basically ban all of F500 from doing business with that firm.

[vharuck]

This certainly isn't going to attract foreign investment. Business isn't big on governments that capriciously threaten to seize control of or financially harm them.

[llm_nerd]

The US is currently an autocracy/idiocracy. A staggeringly corrupt, busted nation.

Soon enough the midterms will be effectively cancelled.

Americans remain blissfully unaware.

[rootusrootus]

> The US is currently an autocracy/idiocracy. A staggeringly corrupt, busted nation.

We are in a bad place right now, that is for certain.

> Soon enough the midterms will be effectively cancelled.

That would be a pretty big leap from where we are. I think it is important to pay attention, and very important to vote, but there is not a particularly plausible route to cancelling any elections. But they can certainly make enough noise that a lot of people may become confused or scared to vote. So we need to remain laser focused on getting everybody to the polls. Like, this should be priority #1 for every citizen who wants to see democracy continue.

[gnarlouse]

No, it's pretty obvious what these ******s are about to pull. "We'Re NeVeR gOiNg BaCk" --Trump

[knightscoop]

The word you are searching for is not authoritarian, but liberty.

[anigbrowl]

Is Anthropic required to sell to the government even if doesn't want to, and is willing to give up its government contracts rather than change its terms of use?

[CamperBob2]

So what I'm hearing is, having trampled every other amendment in the Bill of Rights, the Trump administration is now turning its sights to the Third.

[theahura]

To be clear, the sovereign is generally considered to be vested in Congress as representatives of the true sovereign, the people.

[gambiting]

What does being sovereign have to do with anything in this case?