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Amazon Rules Out Displaying Tariff Impact After White House Attack

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Re: Amazon Rules Out Displaying Tariff Impact After White House Attack

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Post by ourmandave »

Filligree wrote: post #5

The executive really shouldn't be interfering with private companies in this way. This is Amazon bowing to fears of retaliation. For what, giving customers true information?

Apparently Amazon didn't get the memo on Jan 20th that all decisions must begin and end with "How will this affect the Emperor's image?"

It used to be limited to the state run channel Fox News. Even they would screw up once and a while.

Depending on the severity, they'd either be dragged on X or receive an unhappy on-air call from the Palace in Mar-a-largo.

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Post by aaron695 »

mmcconnell1618 wrote: post #8

There is no regulation or legislation that is telling Amazon they can/can't or should/shouldn't post this information. Amazon appears to be responding to the wishes of the President out of fealty or fear. The threat of a negative response by the President is enough to change the behavior of the company.

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Post by clumsysmurf »

redserk wrote: post #10
mmcconnell1618 wrote: post #8

There is no regulation or legislation that is telling Amazon they can/can't or should/shouldn't post this information. Amazon appears to be responding to the wishes of the President out of fealty or fear. The threat of a negative response by the President is enough to change the behavior of the company.

To me, this calls into question to what degree Amazon will willfully comply with government requests that come in via phone call and not a warrant. From the Amazon shopping side, you can build quite a profile on someone based on their past order history. Want to find protesters? There’s been a number of folks who don’t usually order office supplies suddenly ordering the thick Sharpie markers in a certain area... Hope…

Another request I suddenly worry about is "what books has this person purchased or read on their kindle"

- or -

Who has read books critical of the Trump Regime in the past x months?

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Post by BoredPositron »

mmcconnell1618 wrote: post #8

There is no regulation or legislation that is telling Amazon they can/can't or should/shouldn't post this information. Amazon appears to be responding to the wishes of the President out of fealty or fear. The threat of a negative response by the President is enough to change the behavior of the company.

Pretty much I consider data on aws as compromised from now on.

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Post by a2128 »

Whenever I visit the US I get annoyed that the prices listed on the store shelves aren't actually what I pay; in Europe all prices are VAT-inclusive, but in the US none of the prices include sales tax, they're all broken out separately at checkout.

I found this unreasonable and confusing until one day I read a conservative argument that this is actually a good thing, because it stops the government from increasing sales tax too much. It constantly reminds residents of how much extra they're paying for sales tax and encourages voting for politicians who will reduce sales tax if it's too high. Okay, it's a reasonable argument, I wasn't super against it anymore.

It's fairly shocking to now see this happen, not even as a result of any law but just one of the biggest companies deciding to obey in advance.

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