How is this coersion?

Is it coersion when people refuse to buy anything but free range chicken eggs?

DoD just refuses to buy a product. Anthropic just lost a customer because their product didn't fit the requirements of the customer.

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knollimar 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

They're saying no one who works with them can eat non free range chickens too, no?

	▲	parineum an hour ago \| parent [-]
		And all those companies can choose not to work with them too.

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Jtsummers 39 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

> DoD just refuses to buy a product.

That's not what happened. DOD bought a product, with terms precluding specific applications of the product. DOD decided to change the terms, vendor said no. DOD threw a hissyfit (well, Hegseth did) and said, "No one can use it if they do business with us!"

If they had just terminated their contracts with Anthropic, then there would likely be no issue beyond having to pay out any penalties for terminating a contract early. They could then go to Grok (as they did) and OpenAI and used them instead. Or even kept the contract with Anthropic and its limitations, and just used the others for the cases where Anthropic was not permitted.