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Re:Goldman Sachs Is Pulling Claude Code from Its Bankers and... by p00ki3 on Sunday November 08, 2026 @03:47PM (#50417055)
But they allowed that exact situation for a while now and no one cared. Stupid security but politically safe since Trump would never investigate.

Big corps never pivot throughout the whole corp for a single issue, only when risk in a certain context keeps compounding. The Dem wins compounded risk of legal action; it's not just that the laws are on the books. They were on the books a month ago.

"Yeah that's what I said it's to hedge legal risk."

It's the way you said it; ignoring potentially relevant political context. A lot the rhetoric demonizing politics is intentional to embed a negative reaction causing us to discount it's value

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Re:Goldman Sachs Is Pulling Claude Code from Its Bankers and... by JumpCrisscross on Sunday November 08, 2026 @03:49PM (#50417073)
> they allowed that exact situation for a while now and no one cared

Source for them having allowed it versus not tightly enforced IT rules?

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Re:Goldman Sachs Is Pulling Claude Code from Its Bankers and... by pitched on Sunday November 08, 2026 @03:53PM (#50417121)
ELINA, please! As a non-American, I don’t understand why anyone would care about Trump in this context. Aren’t the people who look into these things different departments? And don’t they only look into anything after a breach?
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Re:Goldman Sachs Is Pulling Claude Code from Its Bankers and... by oblio on Sunday November 08, 2026 @04:14PM (#50417325)
The current administration was basically "corporations, do whatever you want as long as it doesn't interfere with our money making". A lot of people felt, and there seems to be mounting proof, that the administration wasn't going to enforce a lot of laws, especially since their stance was to cut the agencies in charge of that (SEC, FTC, FCC, EPA, etc).
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Re:Goldman Sachs Is Pulling Claude Code from Its Bankers and... by 1718627440 on Sunday November 08, 2026 @04:54PM (#50417752)
So a lot of companies assumed that that was not going to change in the future, aka. that the Trump administration is final and democracy is finished in the USA; do I understand this correctly?
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Re:Goldman Sachs Is Pulling Claude Code from Its Bankers and... by oblio on Sunday November 08, 2026 @05:32PM (#50418140)
These days democracies are a lot fuzzier and there are lots of degrees, many named flawed democracies.

And the current president still needs to hand over the reins peacefully so I wouldn't declare victory, yet.

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Re:Goldman Sachs Is Pulling Claude Code from Its Bankers and... by 1718627440 on Sunday November 08, 2026 @06:50PM (#50419032)
> And the current president still needs to hand over the reins peacefully so I wouldn't declare victory, yet.

Sure, my point is about that basically companies already made decisions based on the assumption, that he will not do that.

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Re:Goldman Sachs Is Pulling Claude Code from Its Bankers and... by pitched on Sunday November 08, 2026 @09:41PM (#50420343)
This still isn’t quite de-Americanized enough for me to track. He has the power to cut funding for whatever specific agency he doesn’t like? And they, knowing this, decide to sit on their hands for four years to keep their paycheques. Finance companies in turn, change policies, knowing that these agencies will not be enforcing laws for four years.

The recent change is that this free-for-all may be cut short? What am I missing here, this sounds like banana republic shenanigans.

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Re:Goldman Sachs Is Pulling Claude Code from Its Bankers and... by graemep on Sunday November 08, 2026 @04:39PM (#50417591)
This is global, starting with Hong Kong months ago. I doubt fear of US regulators were was the motive.
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