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[Cherico]

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos likely lied under oath regarding his denial that Amazon uses third party sellers data to better position their in-house brands in search results.

Matt Stoller: Amazon’s Bezos likely lied under oath before Congress

Matt Stoller, an author and former advisor to the Senate Budget Committee, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos likely lied under oath before Congress during hearings in 2019 and 2020.During sworn testimony b…

thehill.com

once again you don't need to create new laws to get these guys just enforce the ones you already have.

 

[Husky_Khan]

The main British intelligence agencies of MI:5, MI:6, various portions of the Ministry of DefenCe and GCHQ have secured a billion contract with Amazon Web Services over data storage.

Spy agencies including MI5 and MI6 strike deal with AMAZON

 

[Jormungandr]

The main British intelligence agencies of MI:5, MI:6, various portions of the Ministry of DefenCe and GCHQ have secured a billion contract with Amazon Web Services over data storage.

Spy agencies including MI5 and MI6 strike deal with AMAZON

Incredibly, incredibly stupid and likely a cost-cutting measure that'll bite them in the ass.

They should all have their own server infrastructure, not ones from fucking Amazon.

 

[PsihoKekec]

It's the idiotic way that British government is handling everything, like when military recruiting was contracted to a firm that made a complete mess out of it.

It is a part and parcel of Amazon business, it's government contracts (intelligence agencies in particular) are the most profitable part of business, even more than peddling of cheap chinese crap.

 

[Abhishekm]

I still don't get the benefit of having Government Databases in the Cloud. And Civilian market Cloud systems at that. Like if you have to why not send some of that military money of a government network instead of some neverused outpost in bumfuckistan Turkey or something?

 

[Husky_Khan]

Most news outlets are reporting how Amazon is shutting down a "small downtown" office in Seattle due to increasing crime rates in the City they helped make that way.

TPM alleges it's a relocation of 1800 employees though. Amazon is stating it's a temporary relocation however. Plus many of their Corporate workers are largely working from home still.

Amazon relocating 1,800 employees out of downtown Seattle due to spiking crime

Over the past few years, the area has seen increased open air drug use, fencing of stolen goods, shootings, carjackings and other violent crimes. Since Feb. 21, there have been three shootings, two stabbings and a carjacking, leading to an increase in businesses shutting down in the area.

thepostmillennial.com

 

[Cherico]

Most news outlets are reporting how Amazon is shutting down a "small downtown" office in Seattle due to increasing crime rates in the City they helped make that way.

TPT alleges it's a relocation of 1800 employees though. Amazon is stating it's a temporary relocation however. Plus many of their Corporate workers are largely working from home still.

Amazon relocating 1,800 employees out of downtown Seattle due to spiking crime

Over the past few years, the area has seen increased open air drug use, fencing of stolen goods, shootings, carjackings and other violent crimes. Since Feb. 21, there have been three shootings, two stabbings and a carjacking, leading to an increase in businesses shutting down in the area.

thepostmillennial.com

Not feeling a whole lot of sympathy for the city here.

 

[PsihoKekec]

It is ironic, because the kind of policies that Amazon supports, turned Seattle into the kind of shithole it is now, so Amazon is kind of like a stereotypical Californian emigre.

 

[Cherico]

It is ironic, because the kind of policies that Amazon supports, turned Seattle into the kind of shithole it is now, so Amazon is kind of like a stereotypical Californian emigre.

Limozine liberals in a nutshell, destroy everything around them because they feel like their one of the anointed and then flee the mess they caused and learn absolutely nothing from it.

 

[Urabrask Revealed]

Limozine liberals in a nutshell, destroy everything around them because they feel like their one of the anointed and then flee the mess they caused and learn absolutely nothing from it.

In the good ol' days, such scum would've been stopped at the borders and told to turn around or else.

 

[Cherico]

In the good ol' days, such scum would've been stopped at the borders and told to turn around or else.

Wait 60- 80 years then

 

[PsihoKekec]

I think most of us will be dead by then and judging by the rapacious rate of how affluent white liberals destroy the communities and move on to greener pastures to destroy, there won't be anything left in 60-80 years to defend, just enclaves of affluent elite and favelized underclass.

 

[Bacle]

Amazon facing consumer anti-trust litigation.

 

[Bassoe]

Another leaked memo reveals Amazon’s newest strategy to cripple tech reform, framing it as harmful to communities of color and therefore mobilizing hordes of fanatical morons to defend letting them act like cyberpunk clichés.

Amazon urges consultant to ‘push’ message from minority groups

It's the latest instance of a tech company arguing that regulation would harm communities of color.

www.politico.com

 

[Husky_Khan]

'Hundreds' of Amazon Employees Released an Open Letter to Amazon Corporate Leadership Demanding they Take an Unequivocal Stance Supporting Abortion on Demand.

 

[The Whispering Monk]

And look! Amazon is one of the companies that's going to reimburse employees for abortion trips.

 

[ParadiseLost]

LOL no.

Amazon pull out of Texas? Stop doing business in Tennessee and Kentucky?

The other starts are just subpoints.

 

[Husky_Khan]

Amazon says the FTC (Federal Trade Commission) is bullying their senior leadership.

Amazon has accused the US Federal Trade Commission of harassing its top executives, including founder Jeff Bezos and chief executive Andy Jassy, as part of a probe into the ecommerce group’s Prime membership scheme.

Since March 2021, the regulator has been investigating whether Amazon uses deceptive techniques to lure customers into signing up for Prime, the subscription service that offers free delivery and other benefits at a cost of $139 a year.

The FTC is also examining whether Amazon unfairly complicates the process for customers who want to cancel their membership.

In a filing from August 5 that was made public by the regulator on Monday, Amazon said the investigation had become “unduly burdensome” on employees and executives after at least 19 were served individual subpoenas—or Civil Investigative Demands—to give evidence.

The company called for the FTC to “quash or limit” the demands, which it alleged served no other purpose other than to “harass Amazon’s highest-ranking executives and disrupt its business operations.”

Amazon accuses FTC of harassing executives including Jeff Bezos and Andy Jassy

Retail giant hits out at US regulator’s tactics in probe into Prime memberships.

arstechnica.com

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In another story, an Albany, New York Amazon Warehouse are apparently seeking to Unionize. Recently, one of two Staten Island Warehouses that voted to Unionize managed to succeed.

https://money.usnews.com/investing/news/articles/2022-08-16/workers-at-a-new-york-state-amazon-warehouse-seek-to-unionize

 

[PsihoKekec]

When your working conditions are so shitty that even social engineering worker ethnical composition for maximum friction does not prevent them from unionizing.

 

[The Whispering Monk]

I wonder how long before the Unions destroy Amazon...

Any bets?