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Re:Elon Musk’s anti-union tweet from 2018 must be deleted: U... by concordDance on Saturday March 27, 2021 @10:43AM (#26602615)
Politicians should not be threatening to silence people or companies, regardless of whether the latter are lying or treating people badly.

If Amazon is breaking employment law or anti-monopoly law or anything else it can be fined or broken up. What it should not be is silenced.

Re:Elon Musk’s anti-union tweet from 2018 must be deleted: U... by Jonnax on Saturday March 27, 2021 @12:46PM (#26603594)
https://www.businessinsider.com/elizabeth-warren-amazon-twit...

I've quote the tweets below.

Warren has been campaigning to break up large tech companies.

What is so unprofessional about that? Clearly if she was to try and get them fined or broken up it would be through these laws.

She isn't silencing them. She's saying that there'll be consequences.

And Amazon's PR isn't a small company. They can take the heat.

I don't agree with you. A company that forces employees to piss in bottles and lies about it should have their lies face consequences.

Warren isn't removing their tweets. How are they being silenced?

Here is the quotes:

``` After she posted the video on Twitter, saying that companies like Amazon "pay close to nothing in taxes," the tech giant quickly fired back.

"You make the tax laws @SenWarren; we just follow them," it tweeted from its official news account.

"If you don't like the laws you've created, by all means, change them," it added.

Amazon said that it had paid "billions of dollars" in corporate taxes over the past few years alone.

Warren hit back, saying: "I didn't write the loopholes you exploit, @amazon – your armies of lawyers and lobbyists did.

"But you bet I'll fight to make you pay your fair share," she added. "And fight your union-busting. And fight to break up Big Tech so you're not powerful enough to heckle senators with snotty tweets." ```

Re:Elon Musk’s anti-union tweet from 2018 must be deleted: U... by concordDance on Saturday March 27, 2021 @04:31PM (#26605376)
The alarming thing is her thinking that power is required to be able to heckle senators.

Anyone should be able to heckle senators on twittwr! From Mark Zuckerberg to the homeless man in the nearby park!

Re:Elon Musk’s anti-union tweet from 2018 must be deleted: U... by pmiller2 on Saturday March 27, 2021 @10:10PM (#26607388)
You're being obtuse. You know as well as anyone that it doesn't matter if the homeless man in the park heckles Senators. That's the difference; Amazon has real power behind their words.
Re:Elon Musk’s anti-union tweet from 2018 must be deleted: U... by wizzwizz4 on Saturday March 27, 2021 @11:07AM (#26602833)
The problem is not that Amazon is criticising politicians. The problem is that Amazon doesn't need to care; it'll get loads of money anyway. I need to care about what I say, because if I upset people, they'll stop interacting with me.

If Amazon started running adverts about a giant space monkey that wanted to eat the moon, what would happen?