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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1. Amazon supports Breitbart (the right-wing extremist site) by [advertising][breitbartSupport-cache] there.
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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]).
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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)
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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.
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1. Amazon is detrimental to **consumer rights**
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1. Amazon distributes ebooks in a way that [strips][ebookTradeoff] users of many freedoms.
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1. The Amazon Kindle has a back door that can erase books. Amazon was [caught][kindleErase] remotely erasing thousands of copies of 1984.
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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.
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1. Amazon cut off service to Wikileaks, claiming that [whistle-blowing violates its terms of service][antiwhistle].
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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.
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1. Amazon [censored][suicide] product reviews that warn that a product Amazon sells is being used for suicide.
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1. Amazon is detrimental to the **environment**
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1. Amazon [powers][tenReasons] 50% of their servers with unclean energy.
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1. Amazon's excessive packaging [destroys][pkgExcess] 1 billion trees annually. ([examples][pkgEg])
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[gdprviolation]: <https://www.cnet.com/news/amazon-hit-with-record-888m-fine-over-gdpr-violations>
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[gdprviolation-cache]: <http://web.archive.org/web/20210731033405/www.cnet.com/news/amazon-hit-with-record-888m-fine-over-gdpr-violations>
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[suicide]: <https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/04/technology/amazon-suicide-poison-preservative.html>
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[suicide-cache]: <https://web.archive.org/web/20220205064526/www.nytimes.com/2022/02/04/technology/amazon-suicide-poison-preservative.html>
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