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Re:Amazon threatened to fire employees for speaking out on c... by jbob2000 on Thursday January 02, 2020 @04:41PM (#21940177)
You can have your own views and you are allowed to speak them as you wish. What you can’t do is make your personal views appear as if they are also the company’s views.
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Re:Amazon threatened to fire employees for speaking out on c... by jhayward on Thursday January 02, 2020 @04:53PM (#21940319)
Where, in the article referenced in another comment, does that employee imply they speak for the company?

The policy prevents employees from speaking, period, if they are identified at all as Amazon employees.

In my view, saying "I wish I were permitted to bring my values to my job doing UI design at Amazon" is not in any way speaking for the company.

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Re:Amazon threatened to fire employees for speaking out on c... by zo1 on Thursday January 02, 2020 @08:03PM (#21941899)
Well, to be fair, they go under the group name "Amazon Employees for Climate Justice". Let's be reasonable and see it from the employers view that this sort of title has some sort of greater than zero implication that this entity speaks for Amazon.

What do we think Amazon would/should do if someone external to Amazon went under an entity name such as "Amazon Executive Committee" and posted controversial/activist like content? I would imagine that Amazon would attempt to deal with the negative PR of some people thinking that this is some sort of official Amazon group.

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