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sbinthree | 3 years ago

Whatever the corporate equivalent is of a late stage authoritarian dictatorship.

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hotpotamus|3 years ago

I believe it's just "corporation". Have you ever worked for a company that was run democratically? I've worked at good and bad places, but ultimately the orders came from the top. I don't think Amazon is very unique in their governance and attitude towards their workers, they're just more competent than most at execution.

TeeMassive|3 years ago

They can do things that's within the law. Recording conversations have been considered harassment in the past. Blocking vocabulary related to unionization could be considered blocking employee from self-organizing.

scarmig|3 years ago

So much of what we call "capitalism" is just creating authoritarian planned economies in the miniature and shrugging our shoulders and saying that it's all "private" so rights like free speech don't apply. And both factions of the elite who run the country like it that way.

awb|3 years ago

> shrugging our shoulders and saying that it's all "private" so rights like free speech don't apply

Centralized control over industry can have some pretty bad consequences too.

gruez|3 years ago

I think you missed the whole "capitalism" vs "planned economies" comparison entirely. The advantage of capitalism over planned economies isn't that it's democratic or whatever. It's that in capitalism, individual companies are allowed to fail if they perform poorly, whereas in a command economy it takes the entire country down.

mc32|3 years ago

The old, it’s a private company so they can set their own rules (see all the responses to Twitter censorship accusations).

Barrin92|3 years ago

It's fair enough for companies to set their own rules for internal communication, after all not every internal board is a public forum. The issue here is obviously the particular form of moderation, i.e. bosses trying to shut down labour organizing.

tenebrisalietum|3 years ago

Over a chat app they provide for work use, I'm not seeing the ethical issue. Pay and overwork is one thing but why can't these employees use their phone for things they don't want the company to observe? Phones are cheap.