Amazon keeps trying to troll US Congress members in perplexing new PR strategy
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Re: Amazon keeps trying to troll US Congress members in perplexing new PR strategy
#2> Amazon’s PR team, which continues to wage these battles anonymously and without attaching an executive’s name to any of its childish internet taunts and misdirection.
This article uses really charged language. How many corporate Twitter accounts use real people’s names? Seems odd to call this out since they’re just doing routine stuff.
Also, this doesn’t seem like “trolling” and just a way of responding to direct call outs from Sen Warren, etc.
Re: Amazon keeps trying to troll US Congress members in perplexing new PR strategy
#3>This is extraordinary and revealing. One of the most powerful politicians in the United States just said she’s going to break up an American company so that they can’t criticize her anymore
This reply is among the most depressing examples of PR I have ever encountered. I really hope it's seen for the cheap distraction that it is.
Re: Amazon keeps trying to troll US Congress members in perplexing new PR strategy
#4> Amazon’s PR team, which continues to wage these battles anonymously and without attaching an executive’s name to any of its childish internet taunts and misdirection. This article uses really charged language. How many corporate Twitter accounts use real people’s names? Seems odd to call this out since they’re just doing routine stuff. Also, this doesn’t seem like “trolling” and just a way of responding to direct c…
>Also, this doesn’t seem like “trolling” and just a way of responding to direct call outs from Sen Warren, etc.
I'd call responding by claiming she's trying to silence them trolling. Same with accusing your employees of making shit up about factual occurrences.
Re: Amazon keeps trying to troll US Congress members in perplexing new PR strategy
#5>This is extraordinary and revealing. One of the most powerful politicians in the United States just said she’s going to break up an American company so that they can’t criticize her anymore This reply is among the most depressing examples of PR I have ever encountered. I really hope it's seen for the cheap distraction that it is.
This entire new line of tactic from Amazon feels especially slimy, even for them.
From the minor "Naming their PR account 'Amazon News'", through the intentionally misleading post you caked it, to the outright gas-lighting / lying about drivers having to urinate and defecate in bags and bottles in their cars in order to meet their monitored times.
This is an bad direction they are looking to take us down. It's staring to smell like the 1800s.
Re: Amazon keeps trying to troll US Congress members in perplexing new PR strategy
#6I really don't understand what Amazon is trying to do here, but this was so baffling that some employees thought the account was hacked and they cut tickets to the security team.
Re: Amazon keeps trying to troll US Congress members in perplexing new PR strategy
#7> “You make the tax laws @SenWarren; we just follow them. If you don’t like the laws you’ve created, by all means, change them. Here are the facts: Amazon has paid billions of dollars in corporate taxes over the past few years alone,” the account tweeted Thursday in response to a critique from Warren that Amazon exploits “loopholes and tax havens to pay close to nothing in taxes.” There’s a growing mountain of evidence pointing out how Amazon pays very little in taxes compared to its annual sales and profits.
I'll have to agree with Amazon on this one.
Legislators whine about corporations not paying taxes while making it legal for them to do so... Why not simply write laws that forces them to pay? It's not like it's their job to write the laws...
Re: Amazon keeps trying to troll US Congress members in perplexing new PR strategy
#8> “You make the tax laws @SenWarren; we just follow them. If you don’t like the laws you’ve created, by all means, change them. Here are the facts: Amazon has paid billions of dollars in corporate taxes over the past few years alone,” the account tweeted Thursday in response to a critique from Warren that Amazon exploits “loopholes and tax havens to pay close to nothing in taxes.” There’s a growing mountain of eviden…
They just follow the laws... but also spend massive amounts of money to bend policymakers in a direction they like. For every "why not just fix xyz?" there is a ton of pressure to keep xyz broken.
Re: Amazon keeps trying to troll US Congress members in perplexing new PR strategy
#9> “You make the tax laws @SenWarren; we just follow them. If you don’t like the laws you’ve created, by all means, change them. Here are the facts: Amazon has paid billions of dollars in corporate taxes over the past few years alone,” the account tweeted Thursday in response to a critique from Warren that Amazon exploits “loopholes and tax havens to pay close to nothing in taxes.” There’s a growing mountain of eviden…
They just follow the laws... but also spend massive amounts of money to bend policymakers in a direction they like. For every "why not just fix xyz?" there is a ton of pressure to keep xyz broken.
> but also spend massive amounts of money to bend policymakers in a direction they like.
Which is, again, made legal by the legislators.
But Warren certainly isn't going to to against her fellow lawmakers and remind the public that letting corporation lobby their ways is a legislative choice. Instead she chose to go after the easy target where she can whine... while still effectively doing nothing!
Re: Amazon keeps trying to troll US Congress members in perplexing new PR strategy
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
They just follow the laws... but also spend massive amounts of money to bend policymakers in a direction they like. For every "why not just fix xyz?" there is a ton of pressure to keep xyz broken.
> but also spend massive amounts of money to bend policymakers in a direction they like. Which is, again, made legal by the legislators. But Warren certainly isn't going to to against her fellow lawmakers and remind the public that letting corporation lobby their ways is a legislative choice. Instead she chose to go after the easy target where she can whine... while still effectively doing nothing!
>while still effectively doing nothing!
So you're saying that to get something done, she should publicly berate the people she will need cooperation from? After all, they are the ones who believed the bullshit the lobby spent millions concocting, they're the ones truly at fault.