Posted on 02/03/2021 6:21:01 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Now that former Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has stepped down, the company has appointed his successor. The new person to helm the e-commerce company could signal how it will handle issues related to online speech in the future.
Andy Jassy, who previously headed Amazon Web Services (AWS), will replace Bezos later this year. You might remember him from such hits as “Let’s Deplatform Parler Because We Don’t Like Conservatives Expressing Their Ideas Online.”
That’s right. Jassy led the department responsible for blacklisting Parler in January under the guise of protecting public safety. Shortly after the assault on the U.S. Capitol building on Jan. 6, the company decided to stop hosting the social media platform, claiming to be concerned over the possibility that its users might “incite violence.’
The incitement narrative was used by other Big Tech companies who used the riots as an opportunity to start diminishing conservative voices, including former President Donald Trump and several influential right-wingers online. Twitter carried out a comprehensive purge of conservative accounts, pretending that these users were violating terms and conditions or inciting violence. Their claims were questionable at best; It was clear to many that it was a shameless effort to censor views with which they disagree.
Parler retaliated against Amazon by filing an antitrust lawsuit, accusing the company of being “motivated by political animus” in their decision to stop providing its hosting services to the social media platform.
However, there is a major problem with the claims that Big Tech has made about Parler. Breitbart News noted that “a criminal complaint filed a few weeks ago revealed that a search warrant was issued on a protester’s Facebook account, as mounting evidence suggests that individuals used Facebook to help organize the Capitol Hill protest.”
The Justice Department filed several charges against rioters who used Facebook to coordinate their trip to Washington, D.C. Nevertheless, none of these Big Tech companies have silenced Facebook, Twitter, or YouTube despite the fact that each of these platforms was used by rioters to collaborate with one another.
This news is yet another sign that conservatives must figure out how to subvert the far-left’s attempts to silence their voices online. January’s censorship efforts are only the beginning. As right-wingers develop more platforms and other means to communicate their ideas, the Marxist element in Big Tech will continue trying to silence them. Conservatives have figured out how to get around the left’s stranglehold on mainstream media before, they can certainly do it again.
RE: none of these Big Tech companies have silenced Facebook, Twitter, or YouTube despite the fact that each of these platforms was used by rioters to collaborate with one another.
I don’t understand this sentence from the article. Facebook, Twitter and YouTube *ARE* the Big Tech companies and they probably have their own Data Centers that don’t rely on Amazon or Microsoft.
Meet the new boss. Same as the old boss.🎶
Twitter uses AWS
Proud Amazon and Twitter “deplatformer.”
8 Nov 2013: AllThingsD: Nine Questions for Andy Jassy, Head of Amazon Web Services
by Arik Hesseldahl
Q: You recently won the CIA’s cloud computing contract. It surprised me that the CIA, which you would think of as being very conservative in its IT approach, would be willing to embrace the public cloud. What does it mean to have the CIA as a client?
JASSY: I have to think about what I can say here. The CIA and the intelligence community are trying to change the way they do computing. They wanted a platform that was transformational in how fast they could get their work done, how readily it scales, the array of services available for them to do their workloads. We were certainly pleased and gratified they chose us. … They were looking for a very robust and fully-featured infrastructure platform...
Q: Let’s talk about your work on GovCloud, the Government-facing cloud computing service. It launched following work by Vivek Kundra, the former CIO of the United States, who urged the government to embrace cloud computing as a way of saving costs. Have there been other federal government clients?
JASSY: Sure. There have been more than 600 government agencies worldwide that are using AWS. The Navy has put its non-classified information on AWS and is spending half of what it was spending before...
The Obama campaign used AWS, and over 18 months built 200 applications. On election day they built a call center, they built an elaborate database to know where their volunteers were, know the neighborhoods where people appeared not to have voted, so they could go knock on doors and get out the vote...
http://allthingsd.com/20131108/nine-questions-for-andy-jassy-head-of-amazon-web-services/
Don’t buy from Amazon and shop local problem solved
Yeah, very glad I left them. Now to totally cut the financial strings.
They want to spy on what we purchase and how we think. I probably should not be posting from a kindle either. 😉
So I’ll be the first to say, “He’s past his prime” heh heh.
When did he step down? Why did he step down?
Better yet, shop amazon then find their sellers and buy direct from them. If higher tell them they need to meet the bezoson price. I do it all the time. Amazon’s search engine and product comparisons are good and I get a thrill knowing I’m using them and not paying. I don’t do bezoson prime any more either.
There are lots better alternatives to zon. For example, I found a much better deal on tools ordered from Home Depot. Great delivery and return policy, just go to a store and exchange what you ordered or get your money back.
I do wish that Waddlemart would much improve their online shopping.
He’s just like Odongo....he won’t let it go.
He’ll stay involved from the shadows...wait & see.
RE: When did he step down? Why did he step down?
Read all about it here:
Thank you.
Well, dare I hope this makes the company less leftist...er...eventually.
Just a few hours ago the Parler board met and fired CEO John Matze.
There is a lot of stuff happening that is hidden from our view here...
Ok. Find me the Remastered Babylon 5 4K series, locally. Oh, wait. Amazon Prime has it. For me, TV quality Standard Definition NTSC doesn’t cut it.
Ok, find me local US merchants that ship to the Philippines for less than $100 in shipping and customs fees, regardless of the item. (A $10 item costs $110 to receive it, while it’s only $15 all in for Amazon)
Target Doesn’t ship here, Walmart Doesn’t ship here
I do wish that Waddlemart would much improve their online shopping.
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Walmart is far worse than Amazon. Walmart replaced its entire back office staff with H1B Indians. Thousands of Americans replaced by foreigners. Or are you willing to throw the American worker under the bus?
Besides the fact that they ARE big tech, those were THIER rioters, so no harm done.
I don’t have to throw anyone under the bus. It has already been done. Doesn’t make it OK but it is done. Find a place of any consequence where that has not been done.
Are you going to quit eating chicken, pork or beef? I don’t think there is pound of any of the three not cut and packed by central americans or something like that.
Give us a lead to all of your american workers only resources so we can have a chance to reform and correct our offenses.
You can find something wrong with anything and do it easily.
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