Just Weeks After Cutting Off Wikileaks, Amazon Brags US Federal Gov't Is One of Its Biggest Customers?
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While Senator Joe Lieberman took credit for pressuring Amazon to stop hosting Wikileaks content via its Amazon Web Services infrastructure,
Amazon insisted that government pressure had nothing to do with it. Still, it seems rather odd that just weeks after booting Wikileaks, Amazon sent out a press release bragging about how the US federal government is one of its biggest customers (found via Slashdot).
Now, obviously, lots of tech companies do plenty of business with the federal government, but the timing of the two events at least creates an impression that Amazon will kick you off its service if the federal government disapproves of what you've done (even if no legal charges have been filed against you).
Again, no one is saying that Amazon has no right to deny service to whomever it wishes, but it does seem rather odd from a PR standpoint, and raises serious questions about how much anyone should continue to trust working a corporation with Amazon.com & Amazon web services if this how they do business ?
"I know it's making me reconsider my future use of their platform and services for of my projects."
What is freedom of speech & freedom of the press anyway?.. Just words Right?
I guess to Amazon there just empty words.... But, not to me....
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CalgarC
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long live the leaks
- 1 year ago
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CalgarC
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PirateSauce
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Lieberman has been one of the biggest douche bags we have seen in awhile.. and he has been bothering the shit out of us for awhile.. WHO is voting for this guy????
I remember when he was all about violent video games.. dude get a LIFE!
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PirateSauce
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RMattnerTours
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Joe Liebermann has to be the biggest prick in the Government, somebody please kick him into touch
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RMattnerTours
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bailey78
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Just goes to prove who is truely running this great Country. The large corperations Thats who. Don't believe me go protest a large Corp and see who goes to jail.
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bailey78
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littlwarrior
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If there really was such a scam one would think Amazon would be more careful about what they say.
- 1 year ago
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littlwarrior
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bailey78
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littlwarrior:
Why there is nothing you can do to harm them.
- 1 year ago
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bailey78
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adamvelvetu
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bailey78:
Yup, its not as though they would think a massive boycott would take place. Plus, it seems pretty obvious that they did it out of support for the government...whether it was pressured out of them or not. What else could their motivation have been?
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adamvelvetu
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bailey78
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adamvelvetu:
To get more of them lucrative Goverment contracts. Thats all they had to gain from it.
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bailey78
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littlwarrior
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bailey78:
Anyone who does not fear the mob is a fool. But then again it is the US government involved, and our government is full of fools.
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littlwarrior
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bailey78
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littlwarrior:
To bad it's full of fools we put there.
- 1 year ago
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bailey78
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littlwarrior
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bailey78:
and we just keep putting them there. Each side keeps saying please baby one more time and then fucking us up, there are more then two fish in the sea dammit, and the two we keep voting in are starting to smell.
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littlwarrior
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bailey78
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littlwarrior:
well I have started doing some research before voteing but I'm not sure that helps much. I will still vote every chance I get just because it's the right thing to do. I also believe that if you don't vote then you have no right to bitch.
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bailey78
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littlwarrior
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bailey78:
If you don't vote you have not right to anything in government, or politics. I vote every chance I get and I obsess for months before about all the candidates, not just the blue or red.
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littlwarrior
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bailey78
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littlwarrior:
Ditto :)
- 1 year ago
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bailey78
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telcod
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Will cancel my Amazon and PayPal accounts forthwith. Already got rid of Visa and the Master Race Card when they tried to raise my rates during the crash. Too little, too late, I fear. The weight of the madding crowds is crushing. All are punished.
- 1 year ago
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telcod
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adamvelvetu
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I'll have to post a link to another article on how the the trend of things like paypal, or amazon, etc...could lead to a cashless and thus speechlesss society.
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adamvelvetu
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bailey78
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adamvelvetu:
Only those without millions in the bank will be speechless. The large corps will have a say in everything that happens.
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bailey78
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adamvelvetu
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bailey78:
Very true. I wonder if we will reach the point where simply being rich isn't presumed to be some charter of 'do whatever'.
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adamvelvetu
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bailey78
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adamvelvetu:
it's already is that way. Don't believe me go get caught with some Coke and see how much jail time you get. Them with money go to rehab we go to jail. Or did I missread that? Those with the money will always be able to do more or less what they want and break what ever laws they want with out paying the price the common folks pay.
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bailey78
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adamvelvetu
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bailey78:
Oh no, that's the exact point I was making. If you're wealthy you typically don't even have to be concerned with prosecution and in the even you are charged your get far better representation.
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adamvelvetu
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CaptSutter
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I was a customer of Amazon in 1993. back in the youthful days when we thought the Internet would save democracy.
Oh well, they didn't get any of my custom after the wikileaks betrayal nor of any of my friends.
It would be interesting to see what the result has been on their bottom-line.
My Visa card is gathering dust too. - 1 year ago
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CaptSutter
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artemis6
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CaptSutter:
me either .
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artemis6
