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You seem to be taking the company's words at face value and assuming good faith. I would caution against doing that.

I took it more as holding them to their actual words and highlighting how they weaseled on the obvious ethical concerns and fear over backlash.

Amazing how often people do that. Corporations have very little incentive to be truthful and often have good reason to be dishonest. I notice it particularly wrt video games, gamers are always taking studio’s messaging as gospel and not corporate comms.

And with Elon Musk! If he says we're going to Mars, then we're going to Mars. If he says full self driving next year, we're getting full self driving next year. He said that every year for 10 years? So what?

I see this all the time at work. Folks treat their relationship with employer like a personal relationship. Be loyal to company and it will be loyal to you. But everyone lies. Your managers will stab you in the back and throw to the ditch anytime they can gain something from it.

One needs to only witness an exec team or board meeting to realise that loyalty as a concept doesn't exist at the top for the vast majority of companies. You're 1.8% of the accounts department budget, or 0.02% of the head office budget. Which is looking a bit high in the face of our projected earnings this quarter. Best get HR to trim that by 10% to free up some cashflow for sales and initiatives. Actually, make that 20%. Bonuses were a bit thin last round and I need a new yacht.

Gaming companies can be pretty stupid at communications honestly.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars_Battlefront_II_(2017...

Look, Amazon has our best interest at heart, alright? Surely they're not working on this still in the background.

At the end of day, Amazon is a business, not an extension of the police or the FBI.

They initially partnered with Flock because they thought this would be a feature people would want. They literally bought a crazy expensive Super Bowl ad to show it off.

Turns out people didn't. So now they're not doing it.

Amazon's only interest is to make money.

> Amazon's only interest is to make money

And they make more money when they're on the right side of whatever gov du jour is running America.

Or when the gov du jour is for sale, they can do whatever they want because they and their CEO can afford just about any price.

In particular, they can publicly walk back their position now and then quietly reintroduce it later when the fuss has died down.

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