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The Amazon policy seems pretty similar to ones at other companies - if you're being asked to speak as their employee, you're supposed to refer all those inquiries to the corporate PR office or what-have-you. Because talking to the press isn't part of your job description. But if you're speaking to the press during non-work hours and off company premises, then I feel like you should be able to say what you want, as long as it doesn't reveal trade secrets. But I don't know what the policy or the law says about that. Anyway if it's a problem, then it's a simple matter of having a journalist attribute the quote to "...an Amazon employee who requested anonymity." It's not ideal for the reporter, but they are mostly pretty accustomed to protecting sources.

>>rdiddl+(OP)
The idea is that you are not allowed to pretend to be the spokesperson of the company you work for. But it is absolutely allowed to referer to yourself as a <job description> at <Company> when speaking publicly. Amazon telling their employees that they can't call themselves Amazon employees is unprecedented.