Comment by OrvalWintermute | Hacker News Reader

Comment by OrvalWintermute | Hacker News Reader

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OrvalWintermute

I support the rights of Democrat & Republican administrations to designate certain companies as supply chain risks OR a national security risk.

I do not want a TikTok hoovering up our personal info sending it to China

I do not want a Anthropic becoming essential to warfare then questioning when the their AI is used to bring an enemy to justice

I do not want Nvidia sending their latest and greatest to China

I do not want a ASML moving their super advanced photolithography machines to China

I do not want a DJI selling their drones in the US and then exporting all the meta-data back to China

I do not want a Huawei hacking through American IT companies and then getting a free pass on selling their devices based on stolen IP in the US

You certainly seem to support the government designating a company a SCR at gunpoint when they refuse to renegotiate a signed, agreed to, and finalized contract.

...You realize the only valid uses of supply chain risk you mentioned were DJI and Huawei. TikTok isn't providing services to the U.S. Gov. Anthropic is an American company with no foreign ownership. A supplier does not have to sell it's product to a government it knows is liable to misuse it. Not as a SaaS provider. Nvidia and ASML are both now covered under ITAR. Your specification of Democrat &Republican admins just demonstrates both are two sides of the same coin. Both need a good and thorough cleaning out.

Anthropic has private ownership from a bunch of foreign investors GIC and MGX for one.

Not saying this action is correct or not but Anthropic has no reason to decline Chinese investment if they could get it. Neither does openAI.

It's insane people consider private companies should have free speech.

When they can't and aren't willing to do the same for private citizens. People being shot on streets didn't see any court cases?

I find hn to be quite brain dead in terms of what it chooses to care about.

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