[Someone1234]

But the result may be Amazon getting blocked in those countries, which could cause Amazon financial and logistical harm.

I'm all for Signal helping people bypass state censorship, but they're attempting to bring third parties into the fold and use them as fodder for the cause.

[socket0]

That's the whole point of this, by blocking Amazon, these countries would be taking down a large part of the Internet inside their borders. We're not talking Amazon your one stop shop for dildos and bobble heads, but AWS, which powers a lot of other websites. The countries listed, like Egypt, know that you can get away with torture, but don't touch the people's memes.

[lambda]

Except it wasn't Amazon's domain they were using; it was souq.com, an online shopping site in the Middle East that is owned by Amazon.