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Amazon Censors Words on Their Chat App For Employees

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Amazon is working on a chat app designed to be used by its employees with the goal of boosting morale. That in itself is pretty humdrum stuff. But the reason the story is generating attention is that Amazon also plans to make some words and terms off-limits within the app itself. A sampling of them will provide a sense of things:

“union,” “grievance,” “pay raise,” and “compensation.” Other banned keywords include terms like “ethics,” “unfair,” “slave,” “master,” “freedom,” “diversity,” “injustice,” and “fairness.” Even some phrases like “This is concerning” will be banned.

I hate
Union
Fire
Terminated
Compensation
Pay Raise
Bullying
Harassment
I don’t care
Rude
This is concerning
Stupid
This is dumb
Prison
Threat
Petition
Grievance
Injustice
Diversity
Ethics
Fairness

Accessibility
Vaccine
Senior Ops
Living Wage
Representation
Unfair
Favoritism
Rate
TOT
Unite/unity
Plantation
Slave
Slave labor
Master
Concerned
Freedom
Restrooms
Robots
Trash
Committee
Coalition

more

Sounds like they don’t want anyone starting a union revolution at Amazon.

11 Comments on Amazon Censors Words on Their Chat App For Employees

  1. But Uncle Al, it appears that profanity is allowed.

    “Bezos is a giant motherfucking pervert!” is OKAY!!

    My moral is boosted already and I don’t work for Amazon.

    (And I apologize for this outburst.)

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  2. Other historical labor words to be banned will be any knowledge of labor unions, the AFLCIO, Teamsters, Wobblies (IWW, look it up), any mention of what happened to jimmy Hoffa etc. but worthless govt. unions like the food workers union will be OK as well as teaches unions and other govt. approved Unions. I am too old to work at a breakneck pace for Amazon, I also have OGS (old guys syndrome) which causes me to have to pee all the time and I wouldn’t stand on the assembly line to have to pee into a portable lastic urinal bottle just to keep the frenetic pace without a break.

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