Bezos deletes 'LGBTQ+ rights' and 'equity for Black people' from Amazon policies

lol fucker, we already knew.

Just goes to show how corporations actually feel about diversity and equality. They're all racist, sexist and homophobic but they all write their policy to appear like they aren't until they are allowed to show their true colours.

Just last night I was going through all my subscribe and save items and finding alternatives. I stored them in a spreadsheet (LibreOffice). My last order is already in motion and once delivered that's it. Amazon is gone.

Other changes I've made or am in the process of making:

• FB + IG -> PixelFed
• Reddit -> Lemmy (lemm.ee)
• X -> BlueSky
• Tesla hasn't been on my wish list for a while -> Rivian or another alternative... wish I could say Xiaomi
• YouTube -> PeerTube, LibreTube, piped.video, invidious

Where I'm stuck and looking for help: What do I do for my next phone? Android and Apple are both at the table supporting this mess. Linux alternatives seem like huge downgrades at the moment... any advice?

Oh good another company to not give my money to. I will be saving a lot this year.

Never heard of the Irish Star before. I went looking for a secondary source. So far CNN and MSNBC are not reporting on this. But interestingly the Washington post is.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/01/10/amazon-removes-black-trans-rights/

Member 10 years ago when tech billionaires sucked up to Democrats

Fuck this guy, with his own dildo rocket straight to any assteroid he wants to mine.

I guarantee that we will see calls to repeal the Civil Rights Act if this continues, and comrade it's just getting started.

You can live without Twitch. Once you leave, you have so much time to do other stuff. Stuff that are so much better than watch other people play games or eat ramen in Tokyo. Go play games yourself and see the world around you with your own eyes. You can also stop ordering useless new stuff. Visit thrift stores or buy second hand online.

God I hate sites that instantly play video ads. Like if I want my phoneplan fast data going to that. Wanted to read. Did not.

Now will people leave Twitch? What about companies that contract with AWS?

Ah gotcha. I appreciate your insight - I'll definitely be looking into this further.

Mask off season.

I tried to save yall by voting for Kamala

We won't survive this.

But if we did, it would be my greatest wish that everyone understands this was all brought to you by tolerance of Greed and capitalism.

Greedy people are a blight on humanity and mentally ill in a serial killer, society must be protected from them way.

But unfortunately, since most here still see themselves as temporarily embarrassed millionaires that don't want to be part of society but live above it, they'll blame everything but. In that respect, maybe my first point is a silver lining.

Wait, rainbow capitalism wasn't sincere?
I left the Amazon ecosystem a couple of years ago because fuck Bezos and it wasn't a big deal, really. Accumulating stuff is a mindset I could reason myself out of. I call it the power of No, thank you. I buy mostly second hand now and it's so calming. Saves me money as well.

Don't worry guys, all these corporations will bring back those pretty rainbow logos for Pride Month™ and all will be forgotten.

Prime? Cancelled.
Kindle unlimited? Cancelled.
Audible? Cancelled.
Twitch? Cancelled.

Not one cent from my wallet will ever be in Bezos’ hands again, from here on out.

"Democracy dies in darkness" said the guy turning off the fucking lights

Okie-dokie.

I guess I can delete "slow down if I see Jeff Bezos crossing the street" from my policies.

The masks are coming off.

I'm proud to say that I've never once bought anything from Amazon. Long before Bezos started to reveal the depths of his psychopathy, the company just grossed me out. There's something about businesses that are that large and that dominant that just makes my flesh crawl (the same reason I never shop at Walmart or eat at McDonald's or get coffee at Starbucks or...)

But at this point, it goes way beyond that - Bezos, alongside Musk and Zuckerberg and Ramaswamy and Thiel and so on - is a direct threat to humanity. He and the other would-be oligarchs, under the umbrella of Trump's ego, are deliberately setting out to destroy the ideals of liberty, democracy and justice in order to build an autocracy in which they will be the masters they believe themselves rightfully to be, and the rest of us will be relegated to being serfs, slaves or corpses.

Way ahead of ya pal. I haven't used Amazon in over 5 years

@letsgo2themall@lemmy.world You can’t use WalMart either. And didn’t Target remove things after literal in-store attacks by chuds?

What’s your game plan? It can’t be the mall…

And if avoiding using Amazon products is your goal, then large swaths of the internet are off the table too.

I’m not trying to be a jerk. Just illustrating how the oligarchs got us over a barrel when it comes to voting with our patronage.

Fun fact, almost any complaint, even one extremely minor, will often make Amazon's customer support chat assistants give you a full refund. They'll even let you not worry about shipping the item back if you say you don't want to because it's not your problem.

This surely doesn't lose Amazon money at all, and definitely isn't something that works with almost any item you buy on Amazon, of nearly any value or quality. Definitely don't do this just because you want Amazon to lose money.

we advocate for policies designed to remove barriers to equity

Holy shit that’s the most corpo speak “we don’t believe in affirmative action” policy I’ve ever heard

What a sack of shit

I usually attempt to buy from other sources, but they are fully ingrained in the online market to the point that other vendors usually drop ship from them, sometimes even if there's no price difference because they get commercial discounts that consumers don't.

Well I guess it's a good thing I have begun my 4 years of austerity. I am not spending one dime more than I need to for necessities. I cancelled Amazon Prime a year ago and will be making every effort to buy whatever necessities I usually would get from there elsewhere.

In case anyone needs some toilet break literature:

https://www.keene.edu/academics/cchgs/resources/presentation-materials/characteristics-and-appeal-of-fascism/download/

These idiots have made a mistake, the pendulum always swings back and most Americans didn't vote for Trump.

I hope they don't expect to be welcomed back with open arms once it does.

Taking the first steps to leave Amazon entirely right now. I am never ordering anything from them again.

Remember when Bezos pretended to be in opposition to Trump? That was nice while it lasted.

It's always worth cutting ties with Amazon.

Just about everything is available from somewhere else, and probably cheaper with their enormous fees they charge the sellers.

If it isn't available elsewhere, it's probably an Aliexpress fire hazard anyway.

They'll kiss whatever ring they need to kiss. The only moral these people have is "number go up". Fuck this planet.

If only it were easy to opt out of things like AWS.

I don't think these jerks quite understand they ain't gonna shove black folks to the back of the bus again. Of course they wont start by trying that but its on their mind.

Hahahaha!

Its funny how these corpos were praised when they raised the LGBT colors, back then they were the moral compas of the western societies, now they're "fascist".

Maybe people won't forget that the companies would do anything in order to increase profits. They never cared about anyone rights, else they wouldn't use slave labor in southeast Asia, or Sub-Saharan Africa.

Good reminder to cancel my Prime membership. My New Year’s resolution was to not purchase anything from Amazon, and so far I’m nailing it.

Closed my account last night. Made my partner close theirs and cancel prime too.

How do I leave AWS?

I use S3, EC2, SNS (or whatever they call it now), email, cloudfront

I want the same fast servers and CDN. I can probably pay someone else for email and sms services

Anyone have a good alternative to AWS S3?

They have a lot of government contracts for AWS. There's a reason he's kissing Trumps ass. I'm not really sure why he and the rest of them are still involved with the companies at all and not just fucking off with their millions. I'd be somewhere else not dealing with political bullshit.

It is a shame it is always the same companies. I can only boycott them once.

Scumbag

Another reason to buy things directly from the manufacturer rather then from Amazon. It's generally cheaper as well.

The cooperation of capital and government is an integral part of fascist regimes. They where never your friends and have no ideology beyond their profits by any means.

Amazon has always been worse for me in terms of delovery times and service anyway. I only order shit there that I otherwise need to get from Aliexpress or whatever

Across Amazon's network, there are millions of orders a day. The sentiment of deleting your account is nice but it's a drop in the ocean. Unless there is a major societal shift, this serves no other purpose than to make yourself feel better by not supporting the business. It's admiral and way to go taking a principled position but meter your expectations. The sheer vitriol thrown at the Warehouse employees by the customer base is truly sad. As others have stated, AWS is inescapable.

Pay me, and then watch an ad, then you can see me insult bezos haha