Comment by spiderice
4 hours ago
It doesn't seem like you understand what a supply chain risk designation is for.
It's to ensure that companies that the DoW relies on don't build on top of a product that isn't fit for DoW work.
You seem to be agreeing with this designation in a way. The DoW essentially said "Pen company won't let us use their pens as neutron-flux regulator rods, so anyone building power plants for us isn't allowed to use these pens as neutron-flux regulator rods".
What is the problem you have with that?
They've essentially said "pen company won't let us use their pens as neutron flux regulator rods, so anyone building power plants for us isn't allowed to use these pens as pens"
(and yeah, there might be a completely legitimate reason to stop your subcontractors from using HuaweiSpyPens, but determining that ACME Pens is just as dangerous because they refused your neutron flux regulator order looks like a punitive measure, not practical risk reduction)
I mean if a competitors pens work for all of your use cases, then why not just use the competitor?
So the DoW should have the ability to perform mass surveillance on American citizens?
Mind you, that is not the DoW’s charter. How would a restriction on that be “unfit” as you say?
The DoW is perfectly within their rights not to purchase anthropic products. That’s different than labeling them a supply chain risk.
The DOW should (and does) have ability to do anything and everything that Congress has said they can do.
Congress is not the British parliament. There is no congressional sovereignty.
The US is a constitutional republic, it does not have a system where anything Congress decides is law.
So, for example, if Congress says the military can require the entire domestic population to be Catholic and kill anyone who isn't... ?
That's not how it works.
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