«The fact that Amazon is capable of doing (or allowing) this — the fact that books can be revoked after they're sold — is a vivid demonstration of the inevitably disastrous consequences of
building censorship tools into devices.»
Hence the CEO can decry authoritarianism in a speech for Ivy League students, despite leading a company that has shut down Russian dissidents and toyed with
building censorship tools for China's government.
Facebook
builds censorship tool to attain China re-entry: NYT.
Former software engineer Alec Muffett, who worked on security issues at the company, said the company's growth obsession — notably its decision to
build a censorship tool in hopes of gaining access to the Chinese market — led him to quit the company.