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Anthropic irks White House with limits on models’ use

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223 points mindingnever | 1 comments | 17 Sep 25 17:57 UTC | HN request time: 0.448s | source
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LeoPanthera ◴[17 Sep 25 18:48 UTC] No.45279813[source]▶
One of the very few tech companies who have refused to bend the knee to the United States' current dictatorial government.
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FortuneIIIPick ◴[17 Sep 25 19:49 UTC] No.45280588[source]▶
Dictatorial suggests a "ruler with total power". The US has three branches of government. That hasn't changed, ever.
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vkou ◴[17 Sep 25 19:54 UTC] No.45280643[source]▶
Two of them jump at the command one the other one, one out of fear (because he has ended the careers of every rep that has crossed him), and the other has been packed with life-time-appointment sycophants who put loyalty to the cut over anything else.

Russia (or literally any other dictatorial tyre pyre) also has three branches of government and a token opposition, for all the good it does.

Just because you have a nice piece of paper that outlines some kind of de jure separation of powers, doesn't mean shit in practice. Russia (and prior to it, the USSR) has no shortage of such pieces of paper.

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FortuneIIIPick ◴[17 Sep 25 20:03 UTC] No.45280704[source]▶
That's a ridiculous take. Seriously outlandish. The US has always had and continues to have three working branches of government. That is a factual statement because it is indeed a fact.
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1. mrbombastic ◴[17 Sep 25 20:23 UTC] No.45280938[source]▶
The power of the purse is currently being usurped by the executive branch with no pushback from a republican congress, armed forces are being deployed to American cities, media corporations are being forced to have admin installed bias police, due process is a joke, museums are being forced to remove information the admin find objectionable. You can bury your head in the sand if you like but there are plenty of us who won’t.