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ssl-3yesterday at 9:11 PM1 replyview on HN

If I produce and sell widgets in my widget shop, then nobody but me gets to decide how I make those widgets.

The government can come into my shop and order sixty thousand widgets built exactly the way they say they want them built, and it may be something that doesn't run afoul of any laws at all.

But that doesn't mean that I am required or compelled to build widgets their way -- or at all.

I'm free to tell them to fuck off.

The government can then find go someone else to build widgets to their specifications (or not; that's very distinctly not my problem).


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basket_horseyesterday at 9:28 PM

And that’s what’s happening here. The government is telling Anthropic to fuck off and they are finding someone else

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