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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.

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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.