Summary: There are many things to criticise Amazon and its founder for; but rarely does the mainstream media bring up the company's appalling patent policy

THIS post isn't about infidelity (shown above) or greed; or Bezos betraying his dead worker by meeting the murderer (shown above). It isn't about him attacking media and its sources (like our EPO sources) or about him being an exhibitionist. It's not about him raking in billions of dollars from the CIA (AWS contracts) or about him urging all companies to work for the Pentagon. It's not about him looking to grab taxpayers' money in New York (corporate welfare) or famously mistreating his employees (we covered some examples based on insiders' accounts after they had approached us).

Amazon is a really bad company. Nevertheless, a lot of companies still feel comfortable hosting most things if not all things at AWS, i.e. in datacentres that Amazon keeps a secret (unless or until it leaks). It even uses proxy locations to hide where the servers are, just like some clandestine agency. It's about surveillance and there's a lot of censorship, too. It's imperialistic.

"Amazon is a really bad company. Nevertheless, a lot of companies still feel comfortable hosting most things if not all things at AWS..."Amazon's record with patents -- a subject we last covered some months ago -- is overlooked by almost everybody. At the European Patent Office, for instance, Amazon pursued the same dubious patents it had received from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), such as this patent we wrote about some months ago. Amazon isn't just imperialistic; it's also monopolistic. It uses software patents to shield its monopoly. ⬆