At this point, it's almost like Amazon is engaged in a decades-long wager to see if it can fully become the evil, ruthless, greedy corporation that everyone has claimed it is for years:
Amazon will block and flag employee posts on a planned internal messaging app that contain keywords pertaining to labor unions, according to internal company documents reviewed by The Intercept. An automatic word monitor would also block a variety of terms that could represent potential critiques of Amazon's working conditions, like "slave labor," "prison," and "plantation," as well as "restrooms" — presumably related to reports of Amazon employees relieving themselves in bottles to meet punishing quotas.
I'm not trying to be crass here: This is pretty bad. Anyone who knows the history of slavery in the U.S. knows that slaves had a wide variety of subjects they were forbidden to discuss, up to and including the brutal moral contradictions of their own enslavement.
Now Amazon is kinda halfway there with its own employees. I mean, there are glaringly obvious material differences between a slave and an employee of Amazon. Still, if a worker on an official employer channel can't even utter the words associated with a labor-related concept, I mean...
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