Misleasing information on lobbying expenses and disrespectful behavior towards parliaments - Amazon defends its problematic business model with problematic methods. It's time to break up Amazon's power: https://t.co/8x3Lj5Z9OE 1/ #blackweek #BlackFriday
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Amazon last showed the ugly side of its power in early 2024, when the company canceled an invitation from the European Parliament to a hearing on working conditions in its logistics centers at short notice. 2/
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This reveals Amazon's attitude towards Europe's democratic institutions. The company lacks respect for elected members of the European Parliament. 3/
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Not least because of the public pressure we built up together with other civil society organizations, the European Parliament revoked Amazon lobbyists' access passes to the Parliament. 4/
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Amazon wants its lobby badges back in order to strengthen its advocacy. Amazon should only get them if the it ▶️comes to the hearing in Parliament on working conditions, ▶️if MEPs can visit Amazon's logistics centers. 5/ Good to see MEP's reinforced these conditions last week!
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Anyone who buys from Amazon during #BlackWeek is accepting Amazon's business model with all its negative effects. These include the poor working conditions in the logistics centers and the inadequate sustainability due to the mass discarding of returns. 6/
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There are also problematic dependencies.The employees are dependent on Amazon itself. The companies and public institutions that use Amazon's cloud infrastructure are also dependent. 7/
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The dependency on Amazon is particularly problematic with its business model. There is a fundamental conflict of interest because Amazon provides the marketplace for products and is also a provider itself. Amazon systematically abuses this position. 8/
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The conflict of interest in Amazon's business model can only be eliminated by breaking up the company. The break-up is necessary and possible, also under german competition law. This is shown by our legal opinion published in 2023. https://t.co/x93rS0TGww 9/
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In order to push back the power of Amazon and other tech companies, we need an international anti-monopoly movement. Our allies on the other side of the Atlantic need us more than ever after Trump got re-elected and Big Tech billionaire Elon Musk is part of the government. 10/
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Let's jointly build up public pressure against tech monopolies. The protests against Amazon during #BlackWeek, such as the @berlinvsamazon demonstration on Friday, could be the starting point for this. 11/
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