> What about AWS? · Amazon Web Services (the “Cloud Computing” arm of the company), where I worked, is a different story. It treats its workers humanely, strives for work/life balance, struggles to move the diversity needle (and mostly fails, but so does everyone else), and is by and large an ethical organization.

I find it very difficult to reconcile this statement with the fact that AWS provides services to the US military to help them perpetrate mass murder more effectively and directly vends to the suborganization inside the US government that operates concentration camps for children. It's fallen out of the news cycle, but this is still happening today, and AWS is still accepting money to help them carry out their crimes.

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/publicsector/training-the-warfi...

https://www.govexec.com/sponsor-content/enabling-the-warfigh...

https://www.technologyreview.com/2018/10/22/139639/amazon-is...

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/27/us/immigrant-children-sex...

These are the people AWS collaborates with. That's not ethical under any framework of ethics I've ever heard of.

It's not even like they just happen to serve the military along with all comers: they voluntarily built a special set of datacenters with racist hiring policies just to court government work:

https://aws.amazon.com/govcloud-us/

It's almost as if people have a gigantic ethical blind spot just so long as it's the state doing the mass killings and torture of children.