Sorry but you don’t speak for regular Amazon employees. You’ve just made that up.

Don't weasel out of supporting it by asking him to prove a negative as a response.

Please, go play partial judge elsewhere. Oh BTW, your friend just implied I was a fascist, (see quote).

> The logical conclusion of your arguments basically Fascism - putting profit above people, which isn’t remotely close to common sense.

1. When everyone's fascist, no one is.

2. Name-calling is just an absolute no no on HN.

3. Your friend doesn't know the definition of fascism.

There was a extremely active discussion on an internal mailing list when "the letter" came out that was signed "Amazonians." While there were a small number of very vocal proponents of stopping the sale of the technology, the prevailing opinion was split between indifference and anger by less than 400, mostly young and relatively new Amazon employees, representing themselves as anywhere near a significant portion of "Amazonians" (however much that was intended versus sensationalism, I refuse to speculate).

I think the government having too much power is more of a liability than it is a benefit.