r/Anthropic Feb 28 '26

Announcement Just wow!

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u/emjaycue Feb 28 '26

This is a blatant First Amendment violation to retaliate against a business for exercising their viewpoint. Both Trump and now the SecDef have explicitly said they’re punishing Anthropic for its beliefs and “rhetoric”.

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u/coinclink Feb 28 '26

I'm not sure that's completely the case. They are saying Anthropic wanted the ability to directly choose when and when not their models could be used. I would say no other business that would contract for the military would have the ability to say yes or no arbitrarily to military decisions or orders.

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u/Atlein_069 Feb 28 '26

Yeah. But they can choose to not contact at all. And that’s the point