Microsoft is always lurking around ready to push their Azure solution so not like AWS can sit back and rest easy here.
Honestly. I am not a government contractor, but I do own a small business - and I stay the fuck out of politics. There is nothing to be gained from making any political overtures of any type. I have my own political opinions, but I don't broadcast them - I simply vote. And my opinions are not those of my company or brand - because my brand/company has no political values - it has a product.
Jeff literally has tens of billions of dollars on the line, both his own and his investors' money. Preventing his media arm, which is supposedly independent, from making a political statement is just absolutely dumb, because this draws MORE attention on him and Amazon than if he just did nothing.
If Harris wins, I wouldn't put it past her to put Lina Kahn on the case of breaking up Amazon. Dumb move by Jeff, and probably a dereliction of duty as a founder who has taken public money.
Unless Trump wins and Bezos benefits from the secret deals that were just made behind the curtain.
Which is a strange thing to support though, but it often happens anyway.
The prisoner's dilemma here is that each group that surrenders to the potential threat makes it more likely the bad situation will actually come to pass.
Besides, who was making their decision based on the Washington Post's editorial board endorsement anyhow?
It didn't even take that much illegal retaliation and abuse of power by Trump to incentivise capitalists to please him.