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Amazon knowingly sells a product that is repeatedly being used for suicide & Amazon targets those buyers with ads for other products that will aid in the suicide. Amazon also censors reviews that point this out.

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@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ Amazon is the root of abuses of privacy, freedom, human rights, civil liberties,
1. Amazon supports Breitbart (the right-wing extremist site) by [advertising][breitbartSupport-cache] there.
1. Amazon uses FedEx (an NRA-supporting ALEC member who feeds republican warchests via ALEC and NRA [republican policy is xenophobic and detrimental to gun control and individual privacy]).
1. Amazon in Germany [hired][naziGuards] "security" guards from a company of Nazi sympathizers to intimidate and repress foreign workers. Reporters came to cover this, and the guards tried to arrest them and take their cameras. (2013)
1. Amazon willfully sells a product [it knows is being used for suicide][suicide]. Amazon’s algorithms target potential suicide victims with ads for other products that will aid in the suicide.
1. Amazon is detrimental to **consumer rights**
1. Amazon distributes ebooks in a way that [strips][ebookTradeoff] users of many freedoms.
1. The Amazon Kindle has a back door that can erase books. Amazon was [caught][kindleErase] remotely erasing thousands of copies of 1984.
@ -52,6 +53,7 @@ Amazon is the root of abuses of privacy, freedom, human rights, civil liberties,
1. Amazon has [partnered with the MPAA](https://web.archive.org/web/20201126140203/https://torrentfreak.com/inside-the-mpaa-netflix-amazon-global-anti-piracy-alliance-170918) to campaign for repression of sharing on the net.
1. Amazon cut off service to Wikileaks, claiming that [whistle-blowing violates its terms of service][antiwhistle].
1. Amazon Prime Video is strictly region-locked, denying content to people in regions that they discriminate against. Users who attempt to bypass the censorship, for example to watch an American film from non-US country via VPN to the US will be blocked immediately.
1. Amazon [censored][suicide] product reviews that warn that a product Amazon sells is being used for suicide.
1. Amazon is detrimental to the **environment**
1. Amazon [powers][tenReasons] 50% of their servers with unclean energy.
1. Amazon's excessive packaging [destroys][pkgExcess] 1 billion trees annually. ([examples][pkgEg])
@ -238,3 +240,6 @@ See also Richard Stallman's [Amazon RAP sheet][RMS], which we will one day merge
[gdprviolation]: <https://www.cnet.com/news/amazon-hit-with-record-888m-fine-over-gdpr-violations>
[gdprviolation-cache]: <http://web.archive.org/web/20210731033405/www.cnet.com/news/amazon-hit-with-record-888m-fine-over-gdpr-violations>
[suicide]: <https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/04/technology/amazon-suicide-poison-preservative.html>
[suicide-cache]: <https://web.archive.org/web/20220205064526/www.nytimes.com/2022/02/04/technology/amazon-suicide-poison-preservative.html>