Re:Amazon threatens to suspend Signal's AWS account over cen...
by manigandham on Thursday May 03, 2018 @02:13AM
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Yea, that's why I said: "government action, either diplomatic or militarized". Any reasonable person will choose diplomacy first.
Nobody is talking about cultural norms here. The story is about Signal being used to help those in oppressive societies with active censorship, not some differing cultures. And "police" is a form of expression, not literally a police department.
Asking Amazon to do anything political is absurd because it's a corporation that should be focused on its paying customers, none of whom would appreciate unwillingly being affected by Signal intentionally breaking their terms of service. Do they suddenly not matter?
It's morally despicable to just expect and force others to help you in your causes, no matter how noble (you think) it is.
> Asking a private corporation to be international police
This implies only police can and does enforce cultural and moral norms. This is the exact opposite of the correct order of things - the police should be preventing or punishing crimes, like theft, robbery, rape, murder, etc. - and people themselves - individually or in organized groups, like companies, NGOs, voluntary societies, etc. - should be creating and enforcing moral norms. You can not just delegate this to "the police", being it national or international.
Thus, asking Amazon to take part in helping to create an international norm of upholding free speech is reasonable. And their refusal is morally despicable.