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https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/04/a_privacy_problem_at_amazon.html

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https://www.theepochtimes.com/business/amazon-sued-over-claims-it-tricks-users-into-buying-prime-subscriptions-that-are-hard-to-cancel-5598765

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https://newsbusters.org/blogs/free-speech/catherine-salgado/2024/02/27/mike-davis-amazon-cahoots-china-latest-anti-american

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https://www.dailysignal.com/2024/02/05/exclusive-amazon-bowed-white-house-pressure-suppress-books-skeptical-covid-19-vaccine/

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https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2024/01/18/amazon-previews-series-celebrating-demons-and-lucifer-one-day-before-announcing-deal-with-christian-filmmakers/

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https://notthebee.com/article/amazon-prime-has-a-new-animated-series-about-heaven-and-hell-and-how-the-devil-is-actually-the-good-guy-yes-this-is-real

Amazon Corporation, Products, & Customer Service:

[See, also, the Privacy Intrusions section near the bottom of this page.]

Amazon Slapped With Massive $1.3 Billion Fine For Anti-Competitive Practices By Italian Regulator

https://dailycaller.com/2021/12/09/amazon-italy-european-union-google-anticompetitive/

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Amazon Earned More Than $1 Billion Through Secret Price-Raising Algorithm: FTC

https://www.theepochtimes.com/article/amazon-earned-over-1-billion-through-secret-price-raising-algorithm-ftc-5522978

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FTC: Amazon Boosted ‘Junk Ads’ for Quick Profit

https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2023/11/03/ftc-amazon-boosted-junk-ads-for-quick-profit/

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WACKER: Amazon Wants A Rigged Market, Not A Free Market

https://dailycaller.com/2023/10/31/wacker-amazon-antitrust-libertarian-build-your-own/

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Amazon’s Ring cameras were used to spy on customers

https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2023/06/amazons-ring-camera-used-to-spy-on-customers

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Amazon Fined $25 Million for ‘Misleading Parents‘ About What It Did with Recordings of Kids

https://www.westernjournal.com/amazon-fined-25-million-misleading-parents-recordings-kids/

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Amazon’s Alexa dares young child to perform dangerous — and life-threatening — ‘challenge

https://www.theblaze.com/news/amazon-alexa-child-penny-challenge

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Unless you opt out, Amazon Sidewalk will share a slice of your bandwidth from Echo and Ring devices with the neighborhood.

https://www.cnet.com/home/smart-home/amazon-echo-shares-your-internet-with-the-neighbors-heres-how-to-turn-off-amazon-sidewalk/

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Amazon has proven unable or unwilling to effectively police third-party sellers on its Web site

https://www.wsj.com/articles/amazon-has-ceded-control-of-its-site-the-result-thousands-of-banned-unsafe-or-mislabeled-products-11566564990

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Amazon just experienced its second major outage in two weeks…  Is everything okay over there?

https://notthebee.com/article/amazon-just-experienced-its-second-major-outage-in-two-weeks-is-everything-okay-over-there

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Amazon’s Cloud Goes Down, Causing Outages For Internet Services Across World

https://dailycaller.com/2021/12/22/amazons-cloud-web-services-outages/

[That was the third major outage @ Amazon Web Service in a span of three weeks.]

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Dirty Politics: Amazon Offered Job to Pentagon Official While Pursuing $10 Billion Defense Contract

https://dcdirtylaundry.com/dirty-politics-amazon-offered-job-to-pentagon-official-while-pursuing-10-billion-defense-contract/

[Because this obvious example of attempted bribery of the Pentagon by Amazon became public, the military brass were forced to award that contract to  both  Amazon and Microsoft (the only other bidder on the project).  Eventually, however, the contract was  cancelled , to be replaced by an even larger contract — on which Amazon will be allowed to bid, despite their previous bribery attempt.]

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Amazon’s corrupt minimum wage ploy

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/editorials/amazons-corrupt-minimum-wage-ploy

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Surprise!  Amazon cuts bonus program to pay for raises

https://www.wnd.com/2018/10/surprise-amazon-cuts-bonus-program-to-pay-for-raises/

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Group of Bipartisan Lawmakers Claims Amazon May Have Lied to Congress

https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2021/10/18/group-of-bipartisan-lawmakers-claims-amazon-may-have-lied-to-congress/

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Amazon’s Political/Philosophical Censorship:

Amazon accused of sabotaging sales of Tucker Carlson biography
All Seasons Press said “craven forces” are trying to “silence” the former Fox News host.

https://thepostmillennial.com/amazon-accused-of-sabotaging-sales-of-tucker-carlson-biography

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Amazon Replaces ‘Amazon Smile’ With its Own Woke Charity

https://www.frontpagemag.com/amazon-replaces-amazon-smile-with-its-woke-charity/

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Woke Amazon Scraps Audience Scores After Discovering What TV Viewers Actually Like

https://www.westernjournal.com/woke-amazon-scraps-audience-scores-discovering-tv-viewers-actually-like-report/

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Amazon Rouses Support from Small Businesses Against Legislation To Rein In Amazon’s Anti-Conservative Bias & Censorship

https://newsbusters.org/blogs/free-speech/catherine-salgado/2022/01/04/google-and-amazon-rouse-support-small-vendors

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How Amazon Is Destroying Main Street America With Help From Liberals — Including Republicans — in Washington

https://dailycaller.com/2021/02/17/amazon-small-business-main-street-lobbying-jeff-bezos-minimum-wage-antitrust/

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Amazon To Foot The Bill For Employees’ Abortion Tourism

https://dailycaller.com/2022/05/02/amazon-employee-abortions-travel-expenses/

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Amazon Whistleblower Who Was Imprisoned And Beaten In China Asks Company For Apology 

https://dailycaller.com/2022/01/31/amazon-foxconn-whistleblower-china/

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Amazon Won’t Let Users Post Negative Reviews of Chinese Books That Ignore China’s Genocide

https://www.lifenews.com/2021/12/20/amazon-wont-let-users-post-negative-reviews-of-chinese-books-that-ignore-chinas-genocide/

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United States Commission on International Religious Freedom Vice Chair:
Corporate Complicity in Uyghur Genocide in China Is Comparable to Corporate Complicity in Nazi Crimes

https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2021/12/23/uscirf-vice-chair-corporate-complicity-in-uyghur-genocide-in-china-is-comparable-to-corporate-complicity-in-nazi-crimes/

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Amazon dumps Frontline Doctors site due to factual information about vaccines

https://www.wnd.com/2021/06/4924491/

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Biden’s Feds seize family’s assets without issuing a single charge, all due to Amazon’s claims against the dad

https://www.wnd.com/2022/02/feds-seize-familys-assets-without-issuing-single-charge-amazons-claims-dad/

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The End Of Conservative Books’: Amazon Quietly Bans Books They Deem Offensive, ‘Hate Speech

https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-end-of-conservative-books-amazon-quietly-bans-books-they-deem-offensive-hate-speech

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Amazon Bans Another Book for the Crime of Opposing the Left

https://pjmedia.com/culture/robert-spencer/2023/03/21/amazon-bans-another-book-for-the-crime-of-opposing-the-left

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Amazon Fascists Ban Another Book That Leftists Hate

https://pjmedia.com/culture/robert-spencer/2022/10/30/amazon-fascists-ban-another-book-that-leftists-hate-n1641265

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Right-of-Center Books Hidden from Amazon Search Results

https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/free-speech/autumn-johnson/2021/05/15/right-center-books-hidden-amazon-search-results

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Report: Amazon Internal Documents Show Company Copied Popular Products, Rigged Search Results

https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2021/10/13/report-amazon-internal-documents-show-company-copied-popular-products-rigged-search-results/

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Matt Walsh says his best-selling ‘Johnny the Walrus‘ book was removed from Amazon’s LGBTQ section

https://www.conservativereview.com/matt-walsh-says-his-best-selling-johnny-the-walrus-book-was-removed-from-amazon-s-lgbtq-section-as-well-as-target-s-website-the-canceling-begins-2655987654.html

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Amazon turns down paid ads for Matt Walsh’s What Is a Woman? book, but runs sponsored search results for books that promote radical leftist gender ideology

https://www.theblaze.com/news/what-is-a-woman-amazon-ads

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Amazon fails to remove fake ‘Laptop From Hell‘ book from website

https://thepostmillennial.com/amazon-fails-to-remove-fake-laptop-from-hell-book-from-selling-platform

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Pro-Trump immigration documentary produced by Hispanics snubbed by Amazon

https://video.foxnews.com/v/6201935321001/

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Jeff Bezos-Owned Streaming Platform ‘Twitch’ Suspends Trump Campaign For a Factual Report on Mexican Immigration and Another Comment Made in Obvious Jest.
Amazon Called Both Comments ‘Hateful Conduct’.

https://dailycaller.com/2020/06/29/bezos-twitch-suspends-trump-campaign-hateful-conduct/

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Amazon Sitcom Catastrophe: U.S. ‘A White Nationalist Ethno-State Run by Fake Theocratic Dictator

https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/culture/dawn-slusher/2019/04/02/amazon-prime-catastrophe-trump-pence

[That “dictator“, of course, was Donald Trump, not  Joe  Biden .]

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Amazon spokesman says attacks against Trump administration were ‘personal‘ views after being called out on Twitter

https://www.foxnews.com/tech/amazon-spokesman-says-attacks-against-trump-administration-were-personal-views-after

[Of course they were, Jay.  You never would have been hired by Jeff Bezos if you didn’t hate Donald Trump.]

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Juanita Broaddrick’s Book about Alleged Clinton Rape Disappears from Amazon

https://pjmedia.com/trending/exclusive-juanita-broaddricks-book-about-alleged-clinton-rape-disappears-from-amazon/

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Amazon deletes one-star reviews of Hillary Clinton’s new book

http://mobile.wnd.com/2017/09/amazon-deletes-1-star-reviews-of-hillarys-book

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CENSORSHIP: Clarence Thomas’s documentary removed from Amazon
Amazon decided to take a documentary on Clarence Thomas, the only black US Supreme Court Justice, down from its streaming service, right in the middle of Black History Month.

https://www.conservativereview.com/censorship-clarence-thomass-documentary-removed-from-amazon-2650824411.html

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Amazon Ignores Black Conservatives
The streaming giant elevates progressive content, ignores right-leaning docs

https://www.hollywoodintoto.com/amazon-ignores-black-conservatives/

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Amazon nixes new documentary from celebrated black author Shelby Steele
What Killed Michael Brown? dissents from the mainstream [left wing] narrative surrounding the 2014 police shooting death that ignited riots in Ferguson, Mo.

https://justthenews.com/nation/free-speech/sat-amamazon-nixes-new-documentary-celebrated-black-author-shelby-steele

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Amazon us[es] its muscle to weaponize [the  SPLC ] a far-left group’s scheme to harm and silence its ideological opponents.

https://stream.org/long-will-amazon-follow-southern-poverty-law-centers-hate-group-slander/

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The Southern Poverty Law Center was too intolerant for the U.S. Army.  Too controversial for the FBI.  And too inflammatory for the Obama Justice Department. But despite SPLC’s baggage, the extremists seem to have found a home at Amazon.

https://www.frc.org/get.cfm?i=WA18E11&f=WU18E04

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How the Far-Left Propaganda Machine SPLC Got a Respected Legal Group Expelled by Amazon

https://www.dailysignal.com//print?post_id=410349

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Bezos’ AmazonSmile excludes conservative nonprofits

https://www.foxbusiness.com/technology/house-gop-amazon-smile-letter-conservative-nonprofits

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Amazon doubles down on excluding some conservative nonprofits from customer donations

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/jun/15/amazon-doubles-down-on-excluding-some-conservative/

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Amazon Blocks Accurate, Conservative Reviews Of The No. 1 Best-Selling Justice On Trial?

https://thefederalist.com/2019/07/11/amazon-blocking-reviews-1-best-selling-justice-trial/

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Filmmaker Says Amazon Pulled His Documentary from Prime Video over Its Pro-Life Content

https://www.christianheadlines.com/blog/filmmaker-says-amazon-pulled-his-documentary-from-prime-video-over-its-pro-life-content.html

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Amazon Bans Books That Tell The Truth About Same-Sex Attraction, But Not Books Telling The Lies of Nazi Propaganda

https://thefederalist.com/2019/07/15/amazon-bans-books-sex-attraction-not-nazi-propaganda/

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Amazon removes controversial books by ‘father of conversion therapy
A Parent’s Guide to Preventing Homosexuality is among the Joseph Nicolosi titles removed from Amazon’s website.

https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/amazon-removes-controversial-books-father-conversion-therapy-n1026446

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Amazon pulls books by authors who formerly identified as homosexual

https://www.christianpost.com/news/amazon-pulls-books-by-authors-who-once-identified-as-gay-lesbian.html

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Amazon Sponsors ‘The GenderCool Project,’ An Org That Puts Gender Ideology Books In Government School Classrooms

https://dailycaller.com/2022/07/18/amazon-sponsors-gender-cool-project-lgbt/

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Amazon Censors Book That Criticizes Transgender Ideology

https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/techwatch/corinne-weaver/2021/02/23/amazon-censors-book-criticizes-transgender-ideology

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Amazon has not addressed why the book is unavailable for purchase and has not responded to many requests for comment.

https://dailycaller.com/2021/02/22/amazon-ryan-anderson-lgbtq-book-trans-gender-ideology/

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Based on False Assumption, Amazon Still Censoring Fact-Based Book on Transgenderism

https://www.dailysignal.com/2022/01/09/based-on-false-assumption-amazon-still-censoring-book-on-transgenderism/

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Ryan Anderson Refutes Amazon: Book on Transgenderism Doesn’t Call LGBT Identity ‘Mental Illness

https://www.dailysignal.com/2021/03/12/ryan-anderson-refutes-amazon-book-on-transgenderism-doesnt-call-lgbt-identity-mental-illness/

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Amazon suppresses another book on the truth of transgenderism

https://thepostmillennial.com/amazon-suppresses-another-book-on-the-truth-of-trans

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Book blowing the whistle on ‘China Virus’ banned by Amazon

https://www.wnd.com/2020/07/book-blowing-whistle-china-virus-banned-amazon/

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Amazon Censors NYT Reporter Alex Berenson’sn Book Exposing Coronavirus Myths Censored by Amazon

https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/matt-margolis/2020/06/04/alex-berenson-book-exposing-coronavirus-myths-censored-by-amazon

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Amazon Censors Another Alex Berenson Booklet Pointing Out Research-Based Face Mask Ineffectiveness

https://thefederalist.com/2020/11/25/amazon-censors-booklet-pointing-out-face-mask-ineffectiveness/

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Amazon Blocked Coronavirus Skeptic’s Book But Still Sells Books By Hitler, The Unabomber

https://thefederalist.com/2020/06/04/amazon-bans-coronavirus-skeptics-book-but-still-sells-books-by-hitler-the-unabomber/

[With knowledge of all the above, is it any surprise to also now know the following?]

Amazon Web Service – along with a broad network of partners – now run state and county election websites [and] stores voter registration rolls and ballot data.

https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/techwatch/alexander-hall/2019/10/17/report-amazon-makes-aggressive-push-elections-security

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How The Amazon Web Hosting Crackdown Threatens Patreon, Substack, And You

https://thefederalist.com/2021/09/07/how-the-amazon-web-hosting-crackdown-threatens-patreon-substack-and-you/

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No More Free Speech! Amazon Web Services to Proactively Remove More Content

https://newsbusters.org/blogs/free-speech/alexander-hall/2021/09/03/no-more-free-speech-amazon-web-services-proactively

[In the immortalized  words  of the famous philosopher Shrek,  “That  explains  a lot” .]

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Amazon Censors ,Then Claims ‘Error’, Then Restores Ad for Book Investigating BLM

https://newsbusters.org/blogs/free-speech/catherine-salgado/2021/09/16/oops-amazon-censors-claims-error-restores-ad-book

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Amazon’s Current & Previous Sexual Obsessions:

Amazon Defends Erotic Content for Children as an American Value

https://washingtonstand.com/commentary/amazon-defends-erotic-content-for-children-as-an-american-value-in-hagiography-of-judy-blume

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Amazon Sells Penis-Themed Signs Marketed ‘For Kids

https://dailycaller.com/2023/06/10/amazon-adult-signs-kids/

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Prime Video’s Sci-Fi Comedy ‘Upload’ Sexualizes and Exploits Young Boy in Masturbation Scene

https://newsbusters.org/blogs/culture/dawn-slusher/2023/10/30/prime-videos-sci-fi-comedy-upload-sexualizes-and-exploits

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Amazon’s private messaging app is being flooded with images of child sex abuse

https://www.theblaze.com/news/-2657495588

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House Republicans Call On Amazon To End Relationship With OnlyFans Over Child Pornography

https://dailycaller.com/2021/10/07/amazon-web-services-onlyfans-lance-gooden-anne-wagner/

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Outrage as Amazon’s Alexa listens to [and  records ] people having sex

https://www.thesun.co.uk/tech/9611689/outrage-as-amazons-alexa-listens-to-brits-having-sex-rowing-swearing-and-sharing-medical-news/

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Amazon Accused of Promoting Pedophilia by Selling ‘Daddy’s Little Slut‘ T-Shirts

https://pjmedia.com/trending/amazon-accused-of-promoting-pedophilia-by-selling-childrens-clothes-with-daddys-little-slt-on-them/

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Creeps use Facebook pics of sick kid for child sex doll model sold on Amazon

https://nypost.com/2020/09/05/facebook-pics-of-sick-kid-used-for-child-sex-doll-model-sold-on-amazon/

[Only after the dolls were publicized did Amazon remove them.]

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In 2011, Jeffrey Epstein Was A Known Sex Offender.  Jeff Bezos Dined With Him Anyway.

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/amphtml/peteraldhous/jeffrey-epstein-bezos-musk-billionaires-dinner

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Advocacy Group Reveals Amazon Among Major Facilitators Of Child Sexual Exploitation

https://dailycaller.com/2021/02/24/national-center-sexual-exploitation-dirty-dozen-list-amazon-twitter-netflix-cuties-child-abuse/

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Report: ‘High-Level’ Amazon Directors Face Charges Following Sex Trafficking Sting

http://www.breitbart.com/tech/2017/12/26/report-high-level-amazon-microsoft-directors-face-charges-following-prostitution-sting/

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Amazon’s Political/Philosophical Bias & Hypocrisy:

Amazon Offered To Help Biden Administration With Vaccine Effort After Sitting On The Sidelines During Trump Admin

https://amp.dailycaller.com/2021/01/20/amazon-biden-vaccine-offer

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Incoming Amazon Web Services CEO Donated to Joe Biden’s Campaign

https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/business/joseph-vazquez/2021/03/24/busted-incoming-amazon-web-services-ceo-donated-joe-bidens

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Amazon Hires Lobbying Firm Connected To Biden’s Top White House Adviser

https://amp.dailycaller.com/2020/12/27/amazon-lobbying-joe-biden-steve-jeff-ricchetti

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Amazon Purges Reviews of Bestselling Anti-Obama Book

https://pjmedia.com/trending/amazon-purges-reviews-of-bestselling-anti-obama-book/

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Amazon Lets Liberal Group That Called Pro-Lifers “Nazis” Decide Which Charities Customers Can Support

https://www.lifenews.com/2020/05/28/amazon-lets-liberal-group-that-called-pro-lifers-nazis-decide-which-charities-customers-can-support/

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Amazon Funds Radical Pro-Abortion Organization

https://www.lifenews.com/2018/11/21/pro-life-group-urges-shoppers-to-boycott-amazon-which-backs-a-pro-abortion-organization/

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Amazon Funds Distribution Of Racist ( Critical Race Theory -Based) ‘Antiracist’ Books In Virginia Public Schools

https://amp.dailycaller.com/2021/06/22/amazon-fund-distribution-antiracist-books-virginia-public-schools-asra-nomani

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Amazon has announced donations to the [ racist, Communist ] Black Lives Matter movement.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/hawley-blm-sponsors-anti-american

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Amazon Allegedly Shuts Down Man’s Smart Home Over False Claims Of Racism

https://dailycaller.com/2023/06/13/louis-rossman-amazon-smart-home-racist-remarks/

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Blue Lives Murder’ Apparel Appears For Sale On Amazon, Law Enforcement Demands Its Removal

https://www.dailywire.com/news/blue-lives-murder-apparel-appears-for-sale-on-amazon-law-enforcement-demands-its-removal

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LeBron Teams Up With Amazon For Literally The Worst Idea In The History Of Sports

https://dailycaller.com/2022/10/28/lebron-amazon-sports-shop-uninterrupted-prime-thursday-night-football/

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I Was Called A KKK Member For Asking Amazon To Support Ideological Diversity During Amazon’s Annual Meeting of Shareholders.

https://thefederalist.com/2019/06/24/called-kkk-member-asking-amazon-support-ideological-diversity/

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Amazon Sponsors Group That Writes Gender Indoctrination Books for Children

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/07/20/amazon-sponsors-group-writes-gender-indoctrination-books-children/

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New Amazon Cartoon Features Middle Schoolers as Woke Left-Wing Activists

https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/culture/elise-ehrhard/2021/11/08/new-amazon-cartoon-features-middle-schoolers-woke-left-wing

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Bezos ‘quietly’ ctarts company to combat ‘human-induced’ [a.k.a. ‘ anthropogenic ] climate change [a.k.a.  global warming ].

https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/business/joseph-vazquez/2020/08/11/washpost-owner-bezos-quietly-starts-company-offers-clue

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Amazon Reportedly Censors Employees Over Environmentalism

https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/techwatch/alexander-hall/2020/01/02/amazon-reportedly-censors-employees-over-environmentalism

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Amazon to Require Supply Chain Partners to Collect and Provide Carbon Emissions Data and Set Reduction Goals

https://mrctv.org/blog/amazon-require-supply-chain-partners-collect-and-provide-carbon-emissions-data-and-set

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Going to Pot: Amazon Increasingly Accepting of Marijuana

https://newsbusters.org/blogs/free-speech/catherine-salgado/2021/09/23/going-pot-amazon-apple-increasingly-accepting

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Amazon is lobbying for federal marijuana legalization bill

https://www.theblaze.com/news/amazon-lobbies-on-behalf-of-republican-marijuana-legalization-bill

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The Most Outlandish Pseudoscience Sold on Amazon

https://www.realclearscience.com/blog/2022/01/10/the_most_outlandish_pseudoscience_sold_on_amazon_811165.html

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Amazon’s Hypocritical Greed:

Amazon Sued for Selling Horrific Suicide ‘Kits’

https://washingtonstand.com/commentary/amazon-sued-for-selling-horrific-suicide-kits

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Amazon Bankrolled a ‘Small Business’ Astroturf Group to Lobby Against Big Tech Oversight

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/03/31/cnbc-google-and-amazon-bankrolled-a-small-business-astroturf-group-to-lobby-against-big-tech-oversight/

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Amazon Closes SBA Program and Agrees to $2.25 Million Settlement Following AG Investigation

https://www.theepochtimes.com/amazon-closes-sba-program-and-agrees-to-2-25-million-settlement-following-ag-investigation_4242617.html

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Jeff Bezos Loved Mail-In Voting For The 2020 Election, But Not For Amazon Unionization Efforts

https://thefederalist.com/2021/02/02/jeff-bezos-loved-mail-in-voting-for-the-2020-election-but-not-for-amazon-unionization-efforts/

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US billionaires — of whom Jeff Bezos is the richest — got $434 billion richer since coronavirus pandemic began

https://www.foxbusiness.com/money/american-billionaires-richer-since-coronavirus-pandemic-began

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Amazon’s lack of income tax paid has become an ‘uncomfortable question

http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2017/09/19/amazons-lack-income-tax-paid-has-become-uncomfortable-question.html

Yet…

Amazon: The World’s Most Efficient Misery Pit

https://salvomag.com/post/amazon-the-worlds-most-efficient-misery-pit

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Amazon Workers Finally Win Small Victory [see the next dozen or so citations], Then Company Rolls Out the Robots

https://www.westernjournal.com/amazon-workers-finally-win-small-victory-company-rolls-robots/

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Always Watching: Amazon Internal Documents Reveal System That Tracks Workers Every Minute

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/06/04/always-watching-amazon-internal-documents-reveal-system-that-tracks-workers-every-minute/

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Amazon doesn’t want workers to think it treats them like slave labor so it’s banning them from using terms like “slave labor

https://notthebee.com/article/amazon-doesnt-want-people-to-think-it-treats-its-workers-like-slave-labor-so-its-forbidding-them-from-using-the-term-slave-labor-which-coincidentally-is-exactly-what-youd-do-to-slave-labor

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Amazon ‘Suspends 50 Workers’ Who Protested, Refused to Work After Fire Broke Out in Warehouse

https://www.theepochtimes.com/amazon-suspends-50-workers-who-protested-refused-to-work-after-fire-broke-out-in-warehouse_4776089.html

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Amazon Driver Told to Keep Working as Deadly Tornado Barreled Toward Town

https://www.westernjournal.com/report-amazon-driver-told-keep-working-deadly-tornado-barreled-toward-town/

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Billionaire Bezos’ Amazon warehouse employees depend on food stamps in 9 states
Bezos, the richest man in the world, benefitted from pandemic conditions

https://www.foxbusiness.com/technology/4k-bezos-amazon-warehouse-employees-on-food-stamps-in-9-states

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Amazon warehouses are ‘cult-like’ sweatshops run by robots: ex-employee

https://nypost.com/2019/11/30/amazon-warehouses-are-cult-like-sweatshops-run-by-robots-ex-employee/

[Of course, ex-employees are notoriously — though not universally — biased.  That is why ASND has included several independent accounts and reports here regarding Amazon’s workplaces and corporate culture.]

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Ruthless Quotas at Amazon Are Maiming Employees
TInternal injury reports suggest all that convenience is coming at the expense of worker safety.

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2019/11/amazon-warehouse-reports-show-worker-injuries/602530/

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Amazon’s Automated HR System Commits Wage Theft On Massive Scale

https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/were-losing-everything-amazons-automated-hr-program-commits-wage-theft-massive-scale

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Amazon workers in Chicago accuse company of withholding overtime pay during Prime Week

https://www.foxbusiness.com/retail/amazon-workers-in-chicago-accuse-company-of-withholding-overtime-pay-during-prime-week

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Amazon Sells Clothes From Factories Other Retailers Blacklist
After a deadly 2013 factory collapse, most big U.S. apparel companies agreed to steer clear of dangerous plants in Bangladesh.
Not Amazon.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/amazon-sells-clothes-from-factories-other-retailers-shun-as-dangerous-11571845003

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Drivers delivering Amazon parcels win legal battle which keeps ‘Draconian working conditions‘ secret

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/amazon-drivers-win-legal-battle-11885217

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Regretted Attrition:’ Amazon Is Losing the Workers It Wants to Keep at a Faster Rate

https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2022/05/25/regretted-attrition-amazon-is-losing-the-workers-it-wants-to-keep-at-a-faster-rate/

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Amazon’s reputation as a company that puts profits over people is becoming disturbingly clear

https://thefederalist.com/2020/04/13/amazon-is-not-taking-good-care-of-the-workers-making-your-life-possible-right-now/

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Jeff Bezos of Amazon.com fame is the richest man in the world.  But over the past eight months, his prized media outlet, The Washington Post, has repeatedly stymied requests for better pay and benefits from the employees who’ve driven its renaissance.

http://mobile.wnd.com/2018/01/wash-post-staffers-told-to-sit-down-shut-up/

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Amazon’s Weak Attempts To Correct Dangerous Labor Conditions Shows Its Dedication To Exploiting Blue-Collar Workers
Amazon uses leftist politicking to provide damage control for its clear pattern of dangerous and derogatory working conditions in its facilities all around the world.

https://thefederalist.com/2021/03/29/amazons-weak-attempts-to-correct-dangerous-labor-conditions-shows-its-dedication-to-exploiting-blue-collar-workers/

and…

Amazon would rather fire workers than face up to its total failure to do what it should to keep us, our families, and our communities safe…  As usual, Amazon would rather sweep a problem under the rug than act to keep workers and working communities safe.

https://dailycaller.com/2021/02/12/report-amazon-suing-ny-ag-attempt-halt-lawsuit-over-covid-conditions/

and…

Amazon To Pay $61.7 Million For Allegedly Keeping Tips From Delivery Drivers

https://amp.dailycaller.com/2021/02/02/amazon-pay-million-keeping-tips-delivery-drivers

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“[Amazon’s] move [to increase its minimum wage to $15/hr is] not premised on doing ‘the right thing,’ as leftist minimum wage activists like to say, but on Amazon keeping its edge as the nation’s leading retailing force.

https://www.investors.com/politics/editorials/minimum-wage-hike-amazon/

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A $15 Minimum Wage Is Great for Amazon.  It’s Not Great for America

https://fee.org/articles/a-15-minimum-wage-is-great-for-amazon-its-not-great-for-america/

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Etsy CEO says Amazon is trying to ‘wipe out its competitors’ by backing California consumer protection bill

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/08/25/etsy-amazon-trying-to-squash-competitors-by-backing-california-bill.html

and…

Amazon has called upon federal regulators to try and shoot down shareholder proposals… requir[ing] Amazon to report on its policies to… include more workforce representation on corporate boards, and the company’s surveillance technology.

https://amp.dailycaller.com/2021/01/28/amazon-sec-regulators-jeff-bezos-hate-speech

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Amazon’s Support for Communism & Totalitarianism:

[ASND apologizes for the redundancy in that heading.]

How Amazon Engages in Sanctioned Trade With Iran

https://freebeacon.com/national-security/how-amazon-engages-in-sanctioned-trade-with-iran/

and…

Amazon Won’t Let Users Post Negative Reviews of Chinese Books That Ignore China’s Genocide

https://www.lifenews.com/2021/12/20/amazon-wont-let-users-post-negative-reviews-of-chinese-books-that-ignore-chinas-genocide/

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United States Commission on International Religious Freedom Vice Chair:
Corporate Complicity in Uyghur Genocide in China Is Comparable to Corporate Complicity in Nazi Crimes

https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2021/12/23/uscirf-vice-chair-corporate-complicity-in-uyghur-genocide-in-china-is-comparable-to-corporate-complicity-in-nazi-crimes/

and…

Amazon Killed One Of Its Most Popular Features Because China’s Communist Party Demanded It

https://dailycaller.com/2021/12/17/amazon-china-xi-jinping-kindle-xinjiang/

and…

Amazon partnered with China propaganda arm to win Beijing’s favor, document shows

https://www.metro.us/amazon-partnered-with-china/

and…

Amazon cheats Americans, strengthens China

https://mobile.wnd.com/2018/10/amazon-cheats-americans-strengthens-china/

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Amazon’s Hypocrisy on Violence:

Amazon deplatformed the social media site Parler for “violent content[which  was a lie ], but it has no problem providing violent, terrorist or Nazi content to its customers.

https://newsbusters.org/blogs/techwatch/corinne-weaver/2021/02/16/amazons-103-hate-items-serial-killers-nazi-symbols-and

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New Report Says Amazon Is Selling & Streaming Over 30 Nazi Propaganda Films

https://newsbusters.org/blogs/free-speech/joseph-vazquez/2022/01/11/new-report-says-amazon-selling-streaming-over-30-nazi

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Amazon Sells hundreds of Violence-Promoting Products Including ‘Kill the Rich’, ‘Kill All Republicans‘, and Columbine School Shooter T-Shirts

https://newsbusters.org/blogs/techwatch/corinne-weaver/2021/01/19/amazons-violent-sales-kill-rich-and-columbine-school
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https://newsbusters.org/blogs/free-speech/corinne-weaver/2021/01/14/kill-all-republicans-amazon-sells-204-items-promoting

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You can’t buy a legal gun on Amazon, but you can buy a shirt claiming “cops kill kids“.

https://twitter.com/BrentBozell/status/1295831414089428992

[For the facts on which and how many kids are actually killed by cops, go  here .]

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Car-theft kit for sale on Amazon: How web giants are ‘helping criminals‘ buy devices that can be used to steal vehicles

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5645063/Car-theft-kit-sale-Amazon.html

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Parler Claims Amazon Deliberately Left Security Hole for Hackers to Target Platform

https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2021/01/20/parler-claims-amazon-deliberately-left-security-hole-for-hackers-to-target-platform/

and…

Kurt Vonnegut Makes The Case Against Amazon

https://thefederalist.com/2021/03/08/kurt-vonnegut-makes-the-case-against-amazon/

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Amazon’s Religious Bias & Hypocrisy:

Amazon Caught Selling Anti-Semitic Islamic Tracts that Promote Violence

https://unitedwithisrael.org/amazon-caught-selling-anti-semitic-islamic-tracts-banned-by-uk-prisons/

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Andy Jassy says Amazon will allow the antisemitic film that Kyrie Irving tweeted to remain on sale for now.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/30/business/dealbook/jassy-amazon-antisemitism.html

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Amazon Bans Tommy Robinson’s Book, Mohammed’s Koran

https://pjmedia.com/homeland-security/amazon-bans-tommy-robinsons-book-mohammeds-koran/

[The book, of course, tells the historic  truth  about both Mohammed and the “holy” book which he claimed was divinely revealed to him (which, btw, was the identical  claim  Joseph Smith made about The Book of Mormon — Hmmm). ]

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Amazon Banned Pro-Israel PJTN After It Attacked Ilhan Omar

https://pjmedia.com/trending/amazon-banned-pro-israel-pjtn-after-it-attacked-ilhan-omar/

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Sharia-Enforcing Amazon Brownshirts Delete Book That Criticized Islam

https://pjmedia.com/culture/robert-spencer/2021/02/12/sharia-enforcing-amazon-brownshirts-delete-islamocritical-book

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Amazon censors documentary on censorship that showed  CAIR  official admitting Sharia denies women equality of rights

https://www.jihadwatch.org/2020/06/amazon-censors-documentary-on-censorship-that-showed-cair-official-admitting-sharia-denies-women-equality-of-rights

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Terror-Linked Muslim Group  CAIR  Pressures Amazon Into Yanking Products, Facilitating Islamic Practices

http://thefederalist.com/2019/01/24/terror-linked-muslim-group-pressures-amazon-yanking-products-facilitating-islamic-practices/

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Amazon Removes ‘Islamophobic’ Products But Sells ‘F**k Me Jesus

https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/techwatch/corinne-weaver/2019/01/08/amazon-removes-islamophobic-products-sells-fk-me-jesus

and…

Amazon has pulled all ads for Johnny The Walrus, claiming it’s not “appropriate.”  They’ve also removed it from the children’s category and labeled it political commentary.  They can’t take the book down because it doesn’t violate their rules, so instead they’ll pull these tricks.

https://twitter.com/MattWalshBlog/status/1519335701766033408

and…

Amazon Culture: Not Just Non-Christian, It’s Anti-Christian

https://salvomag.com/article/salvo36/amazon-culture

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Amazon’s Duggar Docuseries Exploits One Family’s Drama To Vilify All Christians And Homeschooling

https://thefederalist.com/2023/06/08/amazons-duggar-docuseries-exploits-one-familys-drama-to-vilify-all-christians-and-homeschooling/

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Christian Organizations Continue To Make Amazon Smile’s Naughty List

https://dailycaller.com/2022/12/25/christian-organizations-amazon-smiles-naughty-list/

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Conservative, Christian charities excluded from Amazon donation program
The online retailer makes decisions on which groups to include or exclude by consulting the Southern Poverty Law Center

https://thepostmillennial.com/conservative-christian-charities-excluded-from-amazon-donation-program

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Amazon’s Anti-Christian, Pro-Muslim and Nazi-Neutral Policies

https://stream.org/amazons-anti-christian-pro-muslim-and-nazi-neutral-policies/

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Amazon Expressing Public and Open Hostility Toward Christian Organizations

https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/tyler-o-neil/2020/05/27/amazon-shareholders-endorse-viewpoint-discrimination-against-conservatives

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Amazon bans Christian-Based Family Research Council from AmazonSmile program

https://www.christianpost.com/news/amazon-bans-family-research-council-from-amazonsmile-program.html

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Christian book on maturing from boyhood to manhood censored by Amazon.

https://twitter.com/JBStonestreet/status/1292432528972951553

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Amazon Deletes New Releases by Two Christian Authors, Locks Publisher’s Accounts

https://pjmedia.com/trending/amazon-deletes-new-releases-by-two-christian-authors-locks-publishers-accounts/

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Amazon top 500 reviewer banished after Gospel rave
Over 600 critiques pulled by mega-retailer for unexplained ‘bias

http://mobile.wnd.com/2018/07/amazon-top-500-reviewer-banished-after-gospel-rave/

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Amazon joined thirty-six other major corporations in filing an amici curiae brief supporting Colorado Civil Rights Division, et al., against Jack Phillips, the owner of Masterpiece Cakeshop

https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2017/11/apple-sabotages-itself

and…

Jeff Bezos and Amazon Join the Religion of Green

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2020/10/jeff_bezos_and_amazon_join_the_religion_of_greeen.html

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Amazon Demands Conservative Candidates Continue Green Agenda

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2022/07/13/woke-corporations-coke-amazon-unilever-demand-conservative-candidates-continue-green-agenda/

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Amazon Entertainment’s Bias & Hypocrisy:

Corrupting Tolkien and Dumbing Him Down
The Rings of Power series is to Tolkien’s works what the Book of Mormon is to the Old Testament

https://stream.org/corrupting-tolkien-and-dumbing-him-down/

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Amazon’s Rings Of Power Falls Short Because It’s About Making Money, Not The Story

https://thefederalist.com/2022/09/20/amazons-rings-of-power-falls-short-because-its-about-making-money-not-the-story/

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Three Big Ways Amazon’s Rings of Power Butchers Tolkien’s Lore

https://thefederalist.com/2022/09/09/three-big-ways-amazons-rings-of-power-butchers-tolkiens-lore/

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Amazon’s Rings Of Power Fails Because It Abandons Tolkien’s Moral Imagination

https://thefederalist.com/2022/09/06/amazons-rings-of-power-fails-because-it-abandons-tolkiens-moral-imagination/

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The Rings of Power Sinking in Bad Reviews, Amazon Puts Three-Day Pause on All Reviews

https://www.westernjournal.com/rings-power-sinking-bad-reviews-amazon-puts-three-day-pause-reviews/

and…

Amazon’s A League of Their Own Series Makes Lead Characters Queer, Brings Back Rosie O’Donnell as Gay Bar Owner

https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2022/08/13/amazons-a-league-of-their-own-series-makes-lead-characters-queer-brings-back-rosie-odonnell-as-gay-bar-owner/

and…

Amazon’s ‘The Boys’ Curses Out Tucker Carlson, Mocks Mike Lindell
The show previously targeted Christianity, but these attacks could cost it some fans

https://www.hollywoodintoto.com/amazons-boys-tucker-carlson-mike-lindell/

and…

New Amazon Teen Survival Drama Seeks to Create Feminist ‘Gynotopia

https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/culture/elise-ehrhard/2020/12/21/new-amazon-teen-survival-drama-seeks-create-feminist

and…

Amazon’s The Report Tortures The Facts About Dan Jones’s Info Ops

https://thefederalist.com/2020/01/09/amazons-the-report-tortures-the-facts-about-dan-joness-info-ops/

and…

Mrs. Maisel‘ Calls Christian Icon Phyllis Schlafly ‘Satan,’ ‘Monster

https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/culture/amelia-hamilton/2019/12/20/mrs-maisel-calls-phyllis-schlafly-satan

and…

Amazon Sitcom Catastrophe: U.S. ‘A White Nationalist Ethno-State Run by Fake Theocratic Dictator

https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/culture/dawn-slusher/2019/04/02/amazon-prime-catastrophe-trump-pence

[That “dictator“, of course, was Donald Trump, not  Joe  Biden .]

and…

Amazon’s ‘Lord Of The Rings’ Series Has Already Betrayed Tolkien’s Vision

https://thefederalist.com/2022/02/16/amazons-lord-of-the-rings-series-has-already-betrayed-tolkiens-vision/

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Amazon’s Privacy Intrusions & Hypocrisy:

Bipartisan Members of Congress Request DOJ Investigate Amazon For Alleged ‘Criminal Conduct

https://dailycaller.com/2022/03/09/house-judiciary-committee-department-of-justice-criminal-amazon/

and…

Jeff Bezos Protests the Invasion of His Privacy, as Amazon Builds a Sprawling Surveillance State for Everyone Else

https://theintercept.com/2019/02/08/jeff-bezos-protests-the-invasion-of-his-privacy-as-amazon-builds-a-sprawling-surveillance-state-for-everyone-else/

and…

Woman discovers various Amazon devices recorded her without her knowledge over 3,000 times

https://www.wnd.com/2021/10/woman-discovers-amazons-alexa-recorded-without-knowledge-3000-times/

and…

Privacy groups warn: Amazon Ring ‘not safe or secure
Tech lets hackers look inside kids’ bedrooms

https://www.wnd.com/2019/12/privacy-groups-warn-amazon-ring-not-safe-secure/

and…

INVASIVE TECH: Amazon’s New Health Band Collects All Sorts of Personal Information Never Before Collected

https://bigleaguepolitics.com/invasive-tech-amazons-new-health-band-collects-all-sorts-of-personal-information-never-before-collected/

and…

Amazon’s Alexa has serious privacy flaws, researchers find

https://readnews.us/us-news/amazon-s-alexa-has-serious-privacy-flaws-researchers-find

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Amazon Alexa Has ‘New Ways’ to Detect, Listen for Things in Your Home

https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/techwatch/michael-morris/2019/10/07/amazon-alexa-has-new-ways-detect-listen-things-your-home

[Including, btw, “things” like your  political preferences  and  sexual practices For some reason, Alexa owners couldn’t care less about any of this.  Go figure.]

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Amazon Workers Are Listening to What You Tell Alexa

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-04-10/is-anyone-listening-to-you-on-alexa-a-global-team-reviews-audio

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Alexa shares more than 1,500 private conversations with complete stranger

https://www.komando.com/happening-now/524759/alexa-shares-more-than-1500-private-conversations-with-complete-stranger

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Kill your foster parents‘: Amazon’s Alexa blurts out murder, sex unprovoked in AI experiment

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-amazon-com-alexa-insight/kill-your-foster-parents-amazons-alexa-talks-murder-sex-in-ai-experiment-idUSKCN1OK1AJ

and…

France Fines Amazon $42 Million for Tracking Users

https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2020/12/10/france-fines-google-120-million-amazon-42-million-for-tracking-users/

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Jeff Bezos, Post-Amazon:

Jeff Bezos’ Employee was Kidnapped, His Paper Promotes Hamas

The lives of his employees don’t matter to Bezos, but those of Hamas do.

https://www.frontpagemag.com/jeff-bezos-employee-was-kidnapped-his-paper-promotes-hamas/

and…

If You Think Conditions in an Amazon Warehouse Are Bad [see numerous citations above], Bezos’ Personal Housekeeper Says Things at His Home Are Much Worse

https://www.westernjournal.com/think-conditions-amazon-warehouse-bad-bezos-personal-housekeeper-says-things-home-much-worse/

and…

SUPERYACHT: WashPost Owner Jeff Bezos’ Climate Hypocrisy Exposed

https://newsbusters.org/blogs/business/jeffrey-clark/2022/02/04/superyacht-washpost-owner-jeff-bezos-climate-hypocrisy 

and…

Jeff Bezos Donates $100 Million to Far-Left Obama Foundation

https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2021/11/22/jeff-bezos-donates-100-million-to-obama-foundation/

and…

Bezos Parties After Leaving Trapped Amazon Workers To Die As Tornado Shredded The Warehouse

https://www.conservativereview.com/bezos-parties-after-leaving-trapped-amazon-workers-to-die-as-tornado-shredded-the-warehouse-2656026915.html

and…

Hypocrite Jeff Bezos Derailing Paris Agreement Climate Goals

https://www.breitbart.com/environment/2021/11/05/study-worlds-richest-1-derailing-paris-agreement-climate-goals/

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Jeff Bezos flies gas-guzzling private jet to Glasgow climate change summit

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/jeff-bezos-private-jet-glasgow-climate-change-summit

and…

Jeff Bezos’ New Initiative Drops $100 Million Grant On Van Jones

https://dailycaller.com/2021/07/20/jeff-bezos-grant-van-jones-100-million/

and…

Jeff Bezos Lawsuit Is Keeping USA from a Historic Return to the Moon

https://www.westernjournal.com/jeff-bezos-lawsuit-keeping-usa-historic-return-moon/

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