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@dev Freedom without privacy? Forget about it with techno-feudal lords!
Jeff Bezos, through Amazon, has donated $1 million to Donald Trump's inauguration fund for his second term in office. This donation aligns with other tech giants, such as Meta which also contributed $1 million to Trump's inaugural committee. Bezos has been noted for his personal engagement, praising Trump on X following the election victory and expressing a willingness to work with the president-elect. Now let's store -all data- from careless folks using Amazon products, so we could flags them as woman, gay, black, trans, migrants etc… and deny them entry, or better: deport them.

Audible alternatives...

Libby, Hoopla, Libro.fm

more info on Libro:
"We are an alternative to Amazon-owned Audible 👋🏻 With us, you select the independent bookshop you want to support (we have 3,000+ partners across the globe), and we share profits from your purchase with them.
We're also employee-owned and a registered Social Purpose Corporation."

We're talking about the company controlled by a guy who sent money to Trump, changed the Washington Post into Republican propaganda.

You sure you want him to record what you say in private?

"Starting on March 28, recordings of everything spoken to the Alexa living in Echo speakers and smart displays will automatically be sent to Amazon and processed in the cloud."

arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/0

In this photo illustration, Echo Dot smart speaker with working Alexa with blue light ring seen displayed.
Ars Technica · Everything you say to your Echo will be sent to Amazon starting on March 28By Scharon Harding

I don't have Amazon Prime but my husband does.*

Seeing Trump's "The Apprentice" being promoted along an Amazon production "David & Goliath" leaves no doubt that Amazon has gone full Christofascist.
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*it's unlikely that he'll unsubscribe because of the streaming service but at least I got him to buy as little as possible there.

#maga#amazon#bezos

@JoshuaHolland @NBCNewYork

Honestly, it seems like most billionaires are narcissists who really do believe everyone else is beneath them.

"What makes Bezos’s op-ed so insulting is that if he’d made some kind of principled decision to not endorse in the name of “independence” that would not have happened after the endorsement had been drafted and readied for publication.

"He obviously thinks WaPo’s readers are idiots."