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Every company is free to determine its terms of use. If USG doesn’t like them they should sign a contract with someone else.
by theptip 8mo ago
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 8mo agoEvery company is free to state their terms of use, but not all have been upheld when challenged
- otterley 8mo agoWhat’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?
- alex43578 8mo agoI’m sure they would find it objectionable, just like how many reacted negatively to the draft, but it was imposed anyways. The government should have far less control and power over individuals and businesses than it currently does.
- lynx97 8mo agoWell, the rates are different from country to country, but everyone knows taxes. I really don't want to give away almost 40% of my income... Does anyone care what I want or like?
- otterley 8mo agoTaxes aren't forced labor or indentured servitude, and aren't prohibited in any democracies. They're imposed by law through the actions of our duly elected representatives.
- theptip 8mo agoWhat grounds for challenge do you imagine here?
- alex43578 8mo agoCan I run a business and say “No use by insert race here”? If they don’t like it, they can shop somewhere else, right?
- tenuousemphasis 8mo ago[flagged]
- alex43578 8mo agoIf your argument is “every company is free to determine its terms of use”, except when told otherwise by the government, you’ve proven my point. The government is saying they need to provide unfettered access.
- JCharante 8mo ago“Told” is different than it being written into law. Go update the laws first and then you have a valid argument
- alex43578 8mo agoSo they'll be able to use the already-written DPA, right?
- theptip 8mo agoThey can try, but: 1) it’s pretty transparently obvious that Anthropic is not a supply chain risk, and that this is a retaliatory gesture. So I don’t support that usage. 2) if they do try, Congress or SCOTUS could well reduce or remove that authority. I give the Trump admin enough credit to assume that they are considering carefully which laws they spend in this way, DPA is a valuable chip they may need to spend for something more valuable than Hegseth’s temper tantrum.
- FrancisMoodie 8mo agoOfcourse 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.
- blitzar 8mo ago> Every company * * excludes tiktok