diff --git a/rap_sheets/amazon.md b/rap_sheets/amazon.md index 40d12f2..0c7b577 100644 --- a/rap_sheets/amazon.md +++ b/rap_sheets/amazon.md @@ -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]: [gdprviolation-cache]: + +[suicide]: +[suicide-cache]: