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Re:Amazon threatens to suspend Signal's AWS account over cen... by pera on Tuesday May 01, 2018 @03:11PM (#16970373)
I still don't understand why would Google or Amazon care about this, and why it's against their ToS. Do they think that some of those states may block all kind of access to their IP blocks just because of some people using Signal?
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Re:Amazon threatens to suspend Signal's AWS account over cen... by manigandham on Tuesday May 01, 2018 @03:14PM (#16970419)
That's exactly what happened, so yes.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/04/in-ef...

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Re:Amazon threatens to suspend Signal's AWS account over cen... by DangerousPie on Tuesday May 01, 2018 @03:13PM (#16970393)
> Do they think that some of those states may block all kind of access to their IP blocks just because of some people using Signal?

I think this is exactly the problem, yes.

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Re:Amazon threatens to suspend Signal's AWS account over cen... by zoltaan on Tuesday May 01, 2018 @03:48PM (#16970777)
I can imagine why someone cares if someone else pretend being that someone....
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Re:Amazon threatens to suspend Signal's AWS account over cen... by icebraining on Tuesday May 01, 2018 @04:23PM (#16971144)
No, the trick works the other way around; they pretend they want to talk to someone, but then talk to someone else. They never pretend to be someone else.
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Re:Amazon threatens to suspend Signal's AWS account over cen... by s73v3r_ on Tuesday May 01, 2018 @04:36PM (#16971289)
They're still dragging an unrelated and unconsenting party into the mix.
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Re:Amazon threatens to suspend Signal's AWS account over cen... by zoltaan on Tuesday May 01, 2018 @08:16PM (#16972994)
Right. Even so, don't you see problem in that too? Pretending doing one but in fact doing other?

Just imagine using that for a non noble cause....

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Re:Amazon threatens to suspend Signal's AWS account over cen... by icebraining on Wednesday May 02, 2018 @02:56AM (#16974735)
I actually can't :) I mean, I can see why one would oppose it because of how it affects Amazon, but I can't see how it could be used for a non-noble cause.
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Re:Amazon threatens to suspend Signal's AWS account over cen... by middleclick on Tuesday May 01, 2018 @03:17PM (#16970448)
Collateral damage...
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