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AMAZON will block and flag employee posts on a planned internal messaging app that contain keywords pertaining to labor unions, according to internal company documents reviewed by The Intercept. An automatic word monitor would also block a variety of terms that could represent potential critiques of Amazon’s working conditions, like “slave labor,” “prison,” and “plantation,” as well as “restrooms” — presumably related to reports of Amazon employees relieving themselves in bottles to meet punishing quotas.

AMAZON will block and flag employee posts on a planned internal messaging app that contain keywords pertaining to labor unions, according to internal company documents reviewed by The Intercept. An automatic word monitor would also block a variety of terms that could represent potential critiques of Amazon’s working conditions, like “slave labor,” “prison,” and “plantation,” as well as “restrooms” — presumably related to reports of Amazon employees relieving themselves in bottles to meet punishing quotas.

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Yep. Makes me wonder about what Orwell was really up to..? He wrote 1984 during the aftermath of WW2 and the creation of Israel. After release in 1949, Orwell was dead at 47 in 1950.

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I thought most people were aware that Eric Blair (penname George Orwell) really did work for the BBC and saw a bunch of insider shit. He tried to warn us before it was too late. I think it's too late.

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Yep I feel like we just stood around like sheep for so long that they took full control under the guise of a harmless cold and flu variant unless you're 85+, obese or already severely ill.