Amazon Employees Pledge to Walk Out as Part of Global Climate Strike

Re:Amazon Employees Pledge to Walk Out as Part of Global Cli... by whatshisface on Monday September 09, 2019 @04:53PM (#20922361)

>I think Amazon and the other cloud companies need to come down hard and state unequivocally that cloud services are not fodder for political crusades, and they will allow all companies that are conducting legal business activities, to be able to use their cloud.

HN, please don't turn the following in to a flame war. That said...

How does this fit in with companies that de-platform organizations that they see as promoting extremism? There have been some high-profile cases where services like Patreon, CloudFlare and YouTube have banned people who weren't breaking the law, but were doing something management found politically unacceptable. This is interesting because YouTube is run by Google, who also offers cloud services.

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Re:Amazon Employees Pledge to Walk Out as Part of Global Cli... by User23 on Monday September 09, 2019 @06:07PM (#20923007)

I’m not a lawyer, but a lot of these crusades smell like tortious interference[1]. A lot of people just don’t know their rights, but if a third party, which I imagine includes an employee acting in a personal capacity, interferes and causes your AWS contract to be dropped you have a solid cause of action against them. And unlike a lot of activists, Amazon employees may well be worth suing.

And this is a good thing, because reliable contracting is foundational to a developed economy. If you can’t rely on your contracts being honored over arbitrary non stipulated issues then your operation becomes massively less efficient.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tortious_interference

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