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This is addressed in the article. It’s about avoiding public relation issues when they’re found hosting stuff that someone will find offensive…

“ Better preparation against certain types of content could help Amazon avoid legal and public relations risk.

"If (Amazon) can get some of this stuff off proactively before it's discovered and becomes a big news story, there's value in avoiding that reputational damage,"

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This is frightening as I've been building a new social network heavily reliant on AWS services. Of course the goal isn't to build a bastion for bad content, but this seems like a major risk in building on AWS, particularly when there's user generated content.

That said from the article it says they're primarily going to be focused on proactively identifying things like terrorist groups versus sifting through customer data. That doesn't sound too bad but we'll see how it plays out.

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