The New York Times: Amazon Wants a Lot of New Laws

grarpamp grarpamp at gmail.com
Sun Jun 6 01:22:13 PDT 2021


On 6/5/21, jim bell <jdb10987 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> The New York Times: Amazon Wants a Lot of New Laws.
> https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/03/technology/amazon-laws.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/18/technology/big-tech-should-try-radical-candor.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/10/technology/amazon-facial-recognition-backlash.html

"This bit of history shows that what Amazon said was a principled
policy position was quite likely little more than a strategy
maneuver."

"Legalizing" weed is not freedom like "no such laws thus inherently
legal" is. Today legalized means the Govt regulating, extra taxing,
and violently enforcing those new laws, which as before will still
make you just as bankrupt, criminal, and dead if you resist them...
all of which is ridiculous, over a plant, that people have been
smoking since dawn of humanity.

"Minimum wage" distorts free markets, doesn't work, brings
inflation, etc. Any search on why minimums are bad will tell
you.

Amazon makes billions exploiting the lack of privacy laws,
yet any new "privacy" laws will be full of swiss-cheese loopholes
exploited against you, all now with non-negotiable non-free-market-choice
force of Govt behind it, and you won't be the rightful owner controller
and broker of all your data. It all started with you foolish customers
refusing to demand privacy from these companies in the first place.

Giving non-privacy your $$$ doesn't get you any privacy,
same as giving Govts your $$$ doesn't get you any freedom.

Amazon is profitable and can pay more on its own to
'get and keep workers' if it wants, but what it really wants is
to suppress all its less profitable competitors and newcomers
by forcing them to pay those same high wage costs, thus
artificially maintaining its term of supremacy in the market.
It will leverage Govt "law" enforcers as its henchmen to do that at
no cost to itself, instead via money the Govt steals from you to do it.

Same game of leverage with any company that endorses the G-7
G-20 "global minimum corporate tax rate" scam. It's about
stamping out badly needed competition and new ideas in the
marketplace, and emplacing new colossal global structures of
non-freedom over your heads.

See also biased new "right to unionize" laws in US state
of IL which is also full of garbage laws.

You're also propping up and supporting Big Tech Censorship,
which incorporates fake news propaganda an steering, over
your own Freedom of Speech and Free Thought.


You and everyone else don't need Govt "laws", or asshole
corporations, to live well as free beautiful human beings together.
Stop abandoning and giving your personal responsibility to them.
Wake up.


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