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It's VERY relevant - regular Amazonian employees do not care about selling to US law enforcement - the agencies that protect and allow Amazon to thrive and exis

It's VERY relevant - regular Amazonian employees do not care about selling to US law enforcement - the agencies that protect and allow Amazon to thrive and exist. This whole anti law enforcement narrative has been popularized by inter sectionalism - in whose heads law enforcement is full of majority race, privileged individuals oppressing the minorities.

jahewson 8y ago
> regular Amazonian employees do not care about selling to US law enforcement Sorry but you don’t speak for regular Amazon employees. You’ve just made that up.
- writepub 8y ago
  And what data can you offer to prove that a majority of Amazonians support not serving law enforcement?
  - ionised 8y ago
    You made the claim first mate. Don't weasel out of supporting it by asking him to prove a negative as a response.
    - writepub 8y ago
      Convenient. You refute something, as if you have data to back it, and when asked for evidence, you weasel out on technicality. Please, go play partial judge elsewhere. Oh BTW, your friend just implied I was a fascist, (see quote). > The logical conclusion of your arguments basically Fascism - putting profit above people, which isn’t remotely close to common sense. 1. When everyone's fascist, no one is. 2. Name-calling is just an absolute no no on HN. 3. Your friend doesn't know the definition of fascism.
- amznephemeral 8y ago
  Current AMZN employee here. I can anecdotally say that I personally see no problem with selling the technology. There was a extremely active discussion on an internal mailing list when "the letter" came out that was signed "Amazonians." While there were a small number of very vocal proponents of stopping the sale of the technology, the prevailing opinion was split between indifference and anger by less than 400, mostly young and relatively new Amazon employees, representing themselves as anywhere near a significant portion of "Amazonians" (however much that was intended versus sensationalism, I refuse to speculate).
alexandercrohde 8y ago
I think you're speaking too broadly. I for one am very concerned with facial recognition, but it has nothing to do with immigration/left-right/minorities. I think the government having too much power is more of a liability than it is a benefit.
- writepub 8y ago
  I can agree with this wholeheartedly. But the opposition at Amazon is not what you stated. Anyways, I concur.

jahewson 8y ago

> regular Amazonian employees do not care about selling to US law enforcement Sorry but you don’t speak for regular Amazon employees. You’ve just made that up.

writepub 8y ago
And what data can you offer to prove that a majority of Amazonians support not serving law enforcement?
- ionised 8y ago
  You made the claim first mate. Don't weasel out of supporting it by asking him to prove a negative as a response.
  - writepub 8y ago
    Convenient. You refute something, as if you have data to back it, and when asked for evidence, you weasel out on technicality. Please, go play partial judge elsewhere. Oh BTW, your friend just implied I was a fascist, (see quote). > The logical conclusion of your arguments basically Fascism - putting profit above people, which isn’t remotely close to common sense. 1. When everyone's fascist, no one is. 2. Name-calling is just an absolute no no on HN. 3. Your friend doesn't know the definition of fascism.
amznephemeral 8y ago
Current AMZN employee here. I can anecdotally say that I personally see no problem with selling the technology. There was a extremely active discussion on an internal mailing list when "the letter" came out that was signed "Amazonians." While there were a small number of very vocal proponents of stopping the sale of the technology, the prevailing opinion was split between indifference and anger by less than 400, mostly young and relatively new Amazon employees, representing themselves as anywhere near a significant portion of "Amazonians" (however much that was intended versus sensationalism, I refuse to speculate).

alexandercrohde 8y ago

I think you're speaking too broadly. I for one am very concerned with facial recognition, but it has nothing to do with immigration/left-right/minorities. I think the government having too much power is more of a liability than it is a benefit.

writepub 8y ago
I can agree with this wholeheartedly. But the opposition at Amazon is not what you stated. Anyways, I concur.