Re:Let Amazon know we're boycotting them because of Wikileaks
by tybris on Sunday December 05, 2010 @12:58PM
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They probably would have hurt themselves more by keeping wikileaks and becoming the center of attention during the Christmas period, receiving the fury of conservative America, and losing major government contracts.
Re:Let Amazon know we're boycotting them because of Wikileaks
by gte910h on Sunday December 05, 2010 @01:08PM
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Amazon was screwed either way. This way however, they have compromised their cloud service's future (instead of their online retailer's present). It's not their fault they had to choose whom to piss off. They did however turn themselves from a whitebox solutions provider to a curated whitebox solutions provider though with this decision.
"If you get a national politician unhappy with your product, they do have a history of pulling the plug on people, see wikileaks".
While that's not a boycott, that is a move from a strong buy to a "consider other options if you have any chance of pissing someone off".
I do think Joe Liberman single handedly handed cloud computing to non-american countries though with his stunt. Why base your cloud here when your company gets better data protection in :insert jurisdiction which doesn't give a crap about Joe Liberman's threats: