Amazon threatens to suspend Signal's AWS account over censorship circumvention

Re:Amazon threatens to suspend Signal's AWS account over cen... by RockyMcNuts on Tuesday May 01, 2018 @05:57PM (#16972105)

I feel like Amazon has a moral obligation to name the country that is forcing them to do this under penalty of having their entire IP block black-holed.

I assume Amazon would not take this step unless that was going to happen otherwise, or at least I don't see why they would.

They don't need to make a political statement about it, just say they did it to comply with law / order of 'X'. <cough>Russia<cough>

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Re:Amazon threatens to suspend Signal's AWS account over cen... by RandomCSGeek on Wednesday May 02, 2018 @04:04AM (#16974976)

Why wouldn't they do this on their own? Keeping their reputation good with all countries(even the oppressive one's) is an important part of business. After all, amazon has stakeholders to answer to.

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Re:Amazon threatens to suspend Signal's AWS account over cen... by RockyMcNuts on Wednesday May 02, 2018 @09:51AM (#16976826)

I don't see how it hurts their reputation to allow Signal to anonymize. They could even block domain fronting in general to block bad actors, and quietly whitelist Signal.

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Re:Amazon threatens to suspend Signal's AWS account over cen... by RandomCSGeek on Wednesday May 02, 2018 @11:35AM (#16977923)

It's not about anonymizing, it's about hiding under the mask of some other entity, without their(other entity's) permission. AWS's other customers and various governments won't be happy about aws allowing Signal to do so.

While they could white list Signal, I don't see why they would want to go through this trouble. It's not like any of these public companies care any more about supporting people under oppressive rules, than profit.

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