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Amazon was savaged by critics after it was revealed that the technology and online retail colossus was hosting a website for a propaganda arm of the Islamic State that celebrated the murder of 13 U.S. service members in Thursday’s suicide bombing at the Kabul airport, leading the company to pull the plug on the terrorists.
The site and app for ISIS media group Nida-e-Haqq were hosted since April by Amazon Web Services, a dominant player in cloud solutions, despite clear violations of AWS policy against using the service to encourage or promote violence, especially terrorism.
Amazon swiftly moved to avoid a huge public relations problem after a Washington Post report that the SITE Intelligence Group, a non-governmental organization that monitors terrorist activity had identified content and messages linked to Islamic State-Khorasan aka ISIS-K, the faction that claimed responsibility for the attack that claimed the lives of 170 people, including the American troops. On Thursday, the Nida-e-Haqq app featured an image of an Islamic militant in a suicide bomb vest, claiming that it was taken before the blast outside of Hamid Karzai International Airport. BREAKING: #ISIS has claimed today’s bombings at #Kabul_Airport in an ‘Amaq report, stating that its fighters killed and wounded approx 160. The report for the attack comes with a picture of the suicide bomber. pic.twitter.com/mBJX4pPsrW — Rita Katz (@Rita_Katz) August 26, 2021 The WaPo story quoted Rita Katz, the executive director of SITE.
“It’s just mind-blowing that even after all these years, ISIS could still find a way to exploit a hosting company like Amazon,” she said. Ironically, billionaire Jeff Bezos, the world’s wealthiest man owns both The Washington Post and Amazon.
In a Friday statement to The Washington Post, Amazon spokesperson Casey McGee acknowledged that the company had pulled the plug: “(F)ollowing an investigation, we have disabled a website that was linked to this app as it was in violation of the AWS Acceptable Use Policy.”
According to AWS policy, it is forbidden to use the service “to threaten, incite, promote, or actively encourage violence, terrorism, or other serious harm.”
Amazon’s hosting of the terrorist site raised serious questions after the […]
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