On the heels of the first of its warehouses voting to unionize, there is more embarrassment for Amazon.
The company is working on an internal messaging app, and employees have discussed banning a number of labor-related words, according to a new scoop from Ken Klippenstein.
The list of banned words includes words such as fairness and diversity. It gives a glimpse at the future of what it seems to view as a disposable work force who prepares its goods for shipment in the world's largest online marketplace. The list may provide a glimpse of the future of online commerce.
Amazon has bungled attempts before to control the discourse about it. The company was mocked for recruiting employees to post pro-Amazon talking points on social media as ambassadors.
The banned word list has not been approved yet and may change significantly or never launch at all, according to an Amazon spokesman.
If it does launch at some point down the road, there are no plans for many of the words you're calling out to be screened. The only words that can be screened are those that are offensive or harassing.
Readers will have to decide if that claim is plausible.
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