Fuck Off Amazon!

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====  work with deportation centers ====
  *  https://anonym.to/?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OHkBUObWMA

==== military contracts and cooperation with police ==== 

  * The Details about the CIA deal with Amazon https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/07/the-details-about-the-cias-deal-with-amazon/374632/

  * Amazon Ring "smart doorbell" working for the police https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/aug/29/ring-amazon-police-partnership-social-media-neighbor 
  
  * https://netzpolitik.org/2019/amazons-ring-ist-ein-einfallstor-fuer-buergerrechtsverletzungen/

  *  https://uk.reuters.com/article/us-usa-pentagon-amazon/jeff-bezos-says-amazon-wants-to-work-more-with-the-pentagon-idUKKBN1YB0JL

==== usage of non-renewable energy in datacenters(~30% Coal) ==== 
  * Greenpeace report: https://prod.greenpeaceusa.info/usa/reports/click-clean-virginia/#amazon-web-services 

  * The Cloud Paradox: https://www.engineering.com/ElectronicsDesign/ElectronicsDesignArticles/ArticleID/19695/The-Cloud-Paradox-Less-Energy-Used-More-Energy-Wasted.aspx

==== Amazon and fossil fuel industry ==== 

  * https://gizmodo.com/amazon-is-aggressively-pursuing-big-oil-as-it-stalls-ou-1833875828  https://gizmodo.com/how-google-microsoft-and-big-tech-are-automating-the-1832790799


====    Workers exploitation ====

  *  Neo-Taylorism: https://www.jacobinmag.com/2018/02/amazon-wristband-surveillance-scientific-management https://www.economist.com/business/2015/09/10/digital-taylorism http://www.finfacts.ie/irishfinancenews/article_1028973.shtml https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/sep/14/amazon-worker-cage-staff

  *  Amazon wristband: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jan/31/amazon-warehouse-wristband-tracking

  *  https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/apr/02/revealed-amazon-employees-suffer-after-workplace-injuries

  *  Amazon warehouse workers say they are forced  to speed up and ignore safety rules. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/dec/05/hate-lugging-cat-litter-dont-make-us-amazon-warehouse-workers-do-it

  *  Amazon seems to organize some of its warehouse workers to say good things about their             work. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/aug/23/amazon-fc-ambassadors-twitter-working-conditions

  *  Devices are assembled in sweatshop conditions: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jun/09/human-cost-kindle-amazon-china-foxconn-jeff-bezos

  *  Injured workers become homeless: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jul/30/accidents-at-amazon-workers-left-to-suffer-after-warehouse-injuries

  *  Amazon 'regime' making British staff physically and mentally ill, says union https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/aug/18/amazon-regime-making-british-staff-physically-and-mentally-ill-says-union

  *  Delivery drivers have no time to got to the toilet: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/nov/13/help-amazon-driver-hot-foot-it-to-shops

  * A large number of Amazon workers rely on food stamps for assistance https://thinkprogress.org/amazon-workers-rely-on-food-stamps-24ab86dd6495/

  *  Employs ex-military in management positions: https://www.businessinsider.de/amazon-und-aldi-fuehrungskraefte-der-bundeswehr-gesucht-2018-1

==== Union busting ====

  *  leaked internal training on union busting: https://gizmodo.com/amazons-aggressive-anti-union-tactics-revealed-in-leake-1829305201 https://youtu.be/uRpwVwFxyk4

==== Amazon's Influence ==== 

Amazon's enormous size gives company power to influence markets and politics. While it is actually a monopoly but is not regulated as monopoly should be.

==== Cooperation with opressive structures ====
  * NSA http://web.archive.org/web/20150107142335/http://www.storyleak.com/tor-developer-fears-nsa-interception-amazon-purchase

==== Intentionally slows down shipping for customers without "Prime" subscription ====
  * https://www.quora.com/Has-Amazon-slowed-down-their-free-shipping-speed-intentionally

==== No Cash ====   
Amazon Go stores do not accept cash as payment method - customer surveillance

==== Amazon Kindle ====

  *   devices contain a backdoor allowing company to delete books from devices. https://pogue.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/17/some-e-books-are-more-equal-than-others/ http://boingboing.net/2012/10/22/kindle-user-claims-amazon-dele.html

  *  Results generated by Amazon's search engine are partly determined by promotional fees extracted from publishers: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/feb/22/amazon-beware-friendly-internet-giants-google-facebook

  *  Tells Amazon when user reads E-Book that dis not come from Amazon


==== Consumer rights ====

  *  Amazon closes customers' accounts, which implies confiscating their money, if they return too many defective products: https://www.theguardian.com/money/2016/mar/18/banned-by-amazon-returning-faulty-goods-blocked-credit-balance

  *  https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/sep/21/amazon-makes-customers-pay-more-for-popular-products-study-claims

==== Support of state censoship ====

  *  Turned off domain-fronting support in own Cloud(Google did the same): https://www.theverge.com/2018/5/1/17308508/amazon-web-services-signal-domain-fronting-ban-response

  *  Is a member of MPAA, anti-piracy alliance: https://torrentfreak.com/inside-the-mpaa-netflix-amazon-global-anti-piracy-alliance-170918/

  *  denied service for Wikileaks: https://www.theguardian.com/media/blog/2010/dec/03/wikileaks-knocked-off-net-dns-everydns

  *  Amazon, Apple, And Google Are Distributing Products From Companies Building China's Surveillance State https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/rosalindadams/apple-amazon-google-apps-blacklist-china-xinjiang

==== Surveillance ====

  *  Amazon Echo Software Updates policy allows company to convert smart speeakers into full-time listening device at any moment

  * Amazon always require customers to identify themselves

  * Smart TV is tracking everything the users do https://www.theguardian.com/technology/shortcuts/2014/nov/09/amazon-echo-smart-tv-watching-listening-surveillance

  * Amazon wants kids to be dependent on its data-gathering device from the moment they wake up until they go to bed at night: https://theintercept.com/2018/05/11/experts-say-keep-amazons-alexa-away-from-your-kids/

  *  Amazon and Facebook have a secret data-sharing agreement: https://gizmodo.com/amazon-and-facebook-reportedly-had-a-secret-data-sharin-1831192148

  *  Alexa (as well as Googles smart speaker) connect with other smart devices in your house and use them for tracking your habbits: https://www.bloombergquint.com/pursuits/your-smart-light-can-tell-amazon-and-google-when-you-go-to-bed

  *  "We retain customers' voice recordings and transcripts until the customer chooses to delete them" https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/07/amazon-confirms-it-keeps-your-alexa-recordings-basically-forever/#

  * Delivery drones have cameras and apply computer vision to detect people 


==== Tax avoidance ====

  *  http://www.salon.com/2014/04/25/amazons_hypocritical_tax_scheme_how_exploiting_a_massive_loophole_helped_it_destroy_bookstores/

  *  http://www.guardian.co.uk/money/blog/2012/nov/09/how-to-kick-amazon-habit

  *  http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/oct/21/amazon-forces-publishers-pay-vat-ebook

  *  http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/nov/20/high-street-shops-amazon-tax

  *  http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/jun/24/amazons-uk-business-paid-119m-tax-last-year

  *  https://www.geekwire.com/2019/amazon-backs-massive-seattle-office-tower-questions-swirl-growth-plans/


==== Support of far-right and neo-nazi structures ====

  *  Amazon supports Breitbart, the right-wing extremist site, by advertising there.             http://www.valuewalk.com/2017/02/337k-amazon-ceo-jeff-bezos-stop-advertising-breitbart/

  *  Amazon in Germany hired "security" guards from a company of Nazi sympathizers to repress foreign workers.  Reporters came to cover this, and the guards tried to arrest them and take their cameras.             https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/amazon-used-neo-nazi-guards-to-keep-immigrant-workforce-under-control-in-germany-8495843.html

  *  Amazon was a member of ALEC. ALEC is the right-wing lobbying group that promotes voter-suppression laws and "shoot first" laws, as well as attacks against wages and working conditions in the US.            http://www.prwatch.org/node/11473  https://stallman.org/archives/2012-mar-jun.html#2_May_2012_%28ALEC%29

  *  Selling far-right literature and merch: https://truthout.org/articles/after-activist-pressure-amazon-purges-dozens-of-far-right-books/ https://scramnews.com/amazon-selling-far-right-book-paul-golding-britain-first/ 

  * https://twitter.com/hashtag/shameamazon