Re: Trump issues illegal orders to Anthropic's Claude.

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Subject	Re: Trump issues illegal orders to Anthropic's Claude.
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On 2026-03-18, phoenix <j63840576@gmail.com> wrote:
> https://www.cnn.com/2026/03/17/tech/former-judges-support-anthropic
>
> “What happens if you don’t want to do something that they’re asking you 
> to do?” Irina Raicu, director of the internet ethics program at Santa 
> Clara University’s Markkula Center for Applied Ethics, said to CNN. “Is 
> there a way for businesses to hold on to their own ethical guidelines 
> and contract with the government?”

You read that and *this* was your takeaway? A vague quote about “ethics”  
from a university program, while completely ignoring what’s actually  
happening?

Retired judges filing opinions isn’t law, it’s commentary. And the whole  
issue isn’t your feelings about “ethical guidelines,” it’s whether a  
private company gets to dictate terms to the U.S. government and still  
expect access to its contracts.

Anthropic tried to set conditions on how the military can use its tech,  
got told no, and now they’re crying about consequences. That’s not some  
grand ethical dilemma, that’s a business dispute with a PR spin.

But sure, keep clutching that CNN quote like it’s profound while missing  
the entire point. It’s impressive how confidently you can read something  
and still not understand a word of it.

Incidentally, independent media analysts rate CNN as leaning left with
selective framing and narrative bias, so treating it like a neutral
source just makes you look uninformed.

-- 
Tom Mix

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