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Re:Amazon Execs Addressed Concerns About Rekognition/ICE at ... by jahewson on Thursday November 08, 2018 @07:32PM (#18411419)
> regular Amazonian employees do not care about selling to US law enforcement

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

Re:Amazon Execs Addressed Concerns About Rekognition/ICE at ... by writepub on Thursday November 08, 2018 @07:36PM (#18411438)
And what data can you offer to prove that a majority of Amazonians support not serving law enforcement?
Re:Amazon Execs Addressed Concerns About Rekognition/ICE at ... by ionised on Friday November 09, 2018 @04:38AM (#18413363)
You made the claim first mate.

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

Re:Amazon Execs Addressed Concerns About Rekognition/ICE at ... by writepub on Friday November 09, 2018 @10:10AM (#18414913)
Convenient. You refute something, as if you have data to back it, and when asked for evidence, you weasel out on technicality.

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.

Re:Amazon Execs Addressed Concerns About Rekognition/ICE at ... by amznephemeral on Thursday November 08, 2018 @11:37PM (#18412354)
Current AMZN employee here. I can anecdotally say that I personally see no problem with selling the technology.

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).