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Amazon threatens to suspend Signal's AWS account o...
So AWS finally lost enough money to the Russian blockade that they caved. Sad.
nasredin
on May 2, 2018
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Russian economy is very very small.
Whatever Amazon's reason is it's not that they lost some Russian banks for a week.
angry_octet
on May 2, 2018
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The same technique is being used to prevent censorship in a host of countries, like UAE, that have giant piles of cash and influence, and where blocking AWS/Google would have unacceptable consequences. No one gives a damn about a few Russians.
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