Path: csiph.com!weretis.net!feeder9.news.weretis.net!usenet.blueworldhosting.com!diablo1.usenet.blueworldhosting.com!peer01.iad!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!fx12.iad.POSTED!not-for-mail Newsgroups: alt.slack,alt.politics,or.politics From: Tom Mix Subject: Re: Trump issues illegal orders to Anthropic's Claude. References: Reply-To: tom-mixmin@protonmail.com Organization: Order of the Eternal Bait X-No-Archive: yes X-Troll-Infestation-Level: Maximum X-Bridge-Residency: Confirmed X-Bait-Quality: Extra Stinky X-Obsession-Factor: 11/10 X-Reply-Counter: Broken X-Spanked-Hard: Jen Dershmender, Adam H. Kerman, Bill Stickers, Praetor Mandrake X-Sockpuppet-Count: Infinite X-Flamewar-Readiness: Locked & Loaded X-Thread-Necromancy: Active X-Nonsense-Quotient: Overflow X-Meme-Residue: Heavy User-Agent: slrn/1.0.3 (Linux) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-ID: Lines: 32 X-Complaints-To: https://www.astraweb.com/aup NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2026 14:38:34 UTC Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2026 14:38:34 GMT X-Received-Bytes: 2588 Xref: csiph.com alt.slack:506966 or.politics:537362 On 2026-03-18, phoenix 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