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		wbsss4412 on April 4, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Amazon worker chat app to ban words such as “union... There are enough words on the list to get at intent, and it would seem that maintaining professionalism isn’t the only intent of that list. “Accessibility”, “fairness”, “harassment”, etc are all normal words to use within the context of professional discussion.

4oo4 on April 4, 2022 [–]

Yep, it's a lazy attempt at enforcing an Amazon Newspeak.

Coming soon: Amazon removes the SQL `Union` clause from all its products.

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