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Arthur Besse@lemmy.ml to Antiwork@lemmy.ml · 3 years ago

Leaked: New Amazon Worker Chat App Would Ban Words including “Union,” “Restrooms,” “Pay Raise,” “Plantation,” “Grievance,” “slave labor,” “This is dumb,” “living wage,” “diversity,” and “vaccine”

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Leaked: New Amazon Worker Chat App Would Ban Words including “Union,” “Restrooms,” “Pay Raise,” “Plantation,” “Grievance,” “slave labor,” “This is dumb,” “living wage,” “diversity,” and “vaccine”

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Arthur Besse@lemmy.ml to Antiwork@lemmy.ml · 3 years ago
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Leaked: New Amazon Worker Chat App Would Ban Words Like “Union,” “Restrooms,” “Pay Raise,” and “Plantation”
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Also: “Grievance,” “slave labor,” “This is dumb,” “living wage,” “diversity,” “vaccine,” and others.
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  • AgreeableLandscape@lemmy.ml
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    Under communism there is no freedom of speech. Unlike capitalism.

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      3 years ago

      Is proper free speech even possible?

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        Depends on your definition of speech. I’d say it’s possible in theory, but societies tend to avoid it, sometimes for (popular) social public benefit and other times for stability or power. The biggest one is that groups with power don’t tend to tolerate credible threats to their power.

        This page gives a list of some restrictions on speech that tend to be common in many countries, so you would have to find a society that tolerates all of these and more.

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_free_speech_exceptions

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        No, and I don’t claim to support “free speech above all” nor do I think that “no form of expression should ever be removed”. I’m just pointing out the hypocracy that capitalists are so worked up about censorship in socialist countries but when they do it it’s suddenly okay.

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      Why should there be no freedom of speech “under” communism?

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    Apparently this is the list of banned phases and words on Amazon’s employee staff chat app:

    Source: https://social.linux.pizza/@waffelo/108086159480406561

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      Accessibility

      I dodged a bullet.

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    “this is dumb” 🤣

    What about “tornado”?

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      I think “tornado” wouldn’t worry Amazon, “home” or “leave” are the problems there.

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    I don’t think this is gonna work; the workers will just make new definitions.

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      Payment Increase, Syndicate, Bots, etc.

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