[ApolloFortyNine]

>Excuse me, but what a fucked up perspective. "Impose its own morals into the use of its products"?

>How on earth did it come to something where the framing is that anyone is "imposing" anything on another simply by not providing services or a product that fits somebody else's need?

The department of defense in particular has a law on the books allowing them to force a company to sell them something. They generally are more than willing to pay a pretty penny for something so it hardly needs used, but I'd be shocked if any country with a serious military didn't have similar laws.

So your right when it comes to private citizens, but the DoD literally has a special carve out on the books.

A lawsuit challenging it would have actually been insane from anthropic because they would have had to argue "we're not that special you can just use someone else" in court.

A more clear example would be, what would you expect to happen if Intel and amd said our chips can't be used in computers that are used in war.

[convolvatron]

buts it not a national emergency. its not a time of war. and there is a different between demanding to be customer, and demanding that you change your products because they would like them to be a different way. that is actual conscription.

for many decades, the DoD has used a carrot to get what they want. this is a stick.