[tokyobreakfast]

> They government is saying that anyone they do business with can't do business with Anthropic.

Is neither unusual nor extraordinary. The 2022 TikTok ban on government devices—enacted under the Biden administration—carried the same viral-as-in-GPL terms.

[curt15]

The TikTok ban upheld by the courts was a law enacted by Congress, not an executive action, specifically targeting Tiktok. The legal challenges were all about the law's constitutionality.

This dispute challenges the executive's action, not the underlying law (10 USC 3252). Anthropic does make some constitutional claims regarding the 1st and 5th amendments, but they also advance procedural challenges under the Administrative Procedures Act and statutory arguments about whether the law authorized the action.

[armchairhacker]

At least TikTok is owned by China, which is the US’s rival. Nothing Anthropic has done gives me the impression they’re working against anything America.

[OrvalWintermute]

The story is they started fishing for classified info on how their tooling was used from their prime contractor, Palantir, who rightfully blew the whistle on them and told DOD what they were up to.

https://fortune.com/2026/03/07/pentagon-emil-michael-anthrop...

[xvector]

You mean their signed and finalized contract was being violated and they started discussions about how violating said contract is not okay?

[ImPostingOnHN]

It's more like the government blew the whistle themselves that they were trying to use Anthropic's services in a manner contrary to law.

[catigula]

This argument is going to be skewered in court.

[scuff3d]

Careful, you might hurt yourself stretching that far