Amazon is basically hoping to be ignored. There's a lot of conspiracy theory arguments in the comments, but they are all false. Amazon silently defends (how hard I don't know), but its main goal is to not become a part of the controversy. It wants to maintain the customer-centric reputation without having to wade through all the accusations that inevitably come when talking about these things in the open. I think it's a bad idea because it could actually further their reputation to publicly fight, but still that's their line of thinking.
A couple extra things:
* The public and government networks are (very) separate. * If the government wanted in, they would be in anyway (look at Google). * As a public cloud provider, of course there are people using it for bad. Same goes for any other public technology advancement. Some bad, mostly good.
"Until philosophers are kings, or the kings and princes of this world have the spirit and power of philosophy, and political greatness and wisdom meet it one, and those commoner natures who pursue either to the exclusion of the other are compelled to stand aside, cities will never have rest from their evils - no, nor the human race as i believe - and then only will this our state have a possibility of life and behold the light of day."
- Book 5 of Republic by Plato
if you replace "king" and "kings and princes" with "president" and "politicians" you will get the underlying philosophy which could cure this government. Sadly i do not believe that this could occur...they are, as was stated before, too interested with their fiscal gains to be concerned with what their own constituency wants.
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Amazon just wants to be left alone
Amazon is basically hoping to be ignored. There's a lot of conspiracy theory arguments in the comments, but they are all false. Amazon silently defends (how hard I don't know), but its main goal is to not become a part of the controversy. It wants to maintain the customer-centric reputation without having to wade through all the accusations that inevitably come when talking about these things in the open. I think it's a bad idea because it could actually further their reputation to publicly fight, but still that's their line of thinking.
A couple extra things:
* The public and government networks are (very) separate.
* If the government wanted in, they would be in anyway (look at Google).
* As a public cloud provider, of course there are people using it for bad. Same goes for any other public technology advancement. Some bad, mostly good.
Source: I used to work in AWS
Brian, i applaud you
anyone ever read this?
to go along with MrPaladin....
"Until philosophers are kings, or the kings and princes of this world have the spirit and power of philosophy, and political greatness and wisdom meet it one, and those commoner natures who pursue either to the exclusion of the other are compelled to stand aside, cities will never have rest from their evils - no, nor the human race as i believe - and then only will this our state have a possibility of life and behold the light of day."
- Book 5 of Republic by Plato
if you replace "king" and "kings and princes" with "president" and "politicians" you will get the underlying philosophy which could cure this government. Sadly i do not believe that this could occur...they are, as was stated before, too interested with their fiscal gains to be concerned with what their own constituency wants.