Right-On, Ultra-Woke Amazon Suppresses Information About LGBTQ+ Products in the UAE During Pride Month
Amazon has restricted items and search results related to LGBT issues on its website in the United Arab Emirates, despite the woke e-commerce giant celebrating Pride Month elsewhere. Breitbart News has more.
The New York Times reports that earlier this week, Amazon moved to restrict items and search results related to LGBT people on its website in the United Arab Emirates. The move comes after the company faced pressure from the UAE Government, according to company documents seen by the NYT.
The UAE government reportedly gave Amazon a deadline of Friday to comply or face penalties. It was unclear what those penalties would be, but Amazon appeared to take the threat seriously. Homosexuality is criminalised in the UAE and is punishable by fines and imprisonment.
A number of woke tech firms have made concessions to foreign governments in recent years, Netflix has pulled shows in Saudi Arabia or censored them in countries like Vietnam, while Apple has stored customer data on Chinese servers despite its alleged dedication to privacy. Google also removed an app by a Russian opposition leader from its Google Play Store last year following threats of prosecution in the country.
The search terms include “lgbtq”, “pride”, “closeted gay”, “transgender flag”, “queer brooch”, “chest binder for lesbians”, and “lgbtq iphone case”. A number of specific books were also banned including My Lesbian Experience With Loneliness by Nagata Kabi; Gender Queer: A Memoir by Maia Kobabe; and Roxane Gay’s Bad Feminist.
An Amazon spokesperson told the NYT: “As a company, we remain committed to diversity, equity and inclusion, and we believe that the rights of LGBTQ+ people must be protected. With Amazon stores around the world, we must also comply with the local laws and regulations of the countries in which we operate.”
You can read the New York Times story here.
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This pretty much proves the point I’ve tried to make several times.
These tech companies (companies in general) don’t have a social agenda. Their agenda is to make profits.
When a government comes along that can do them harm and tells them to do something, they do it.
The tech companies only started with their censorship when powerful state institutions started accusing them of destabilising democracy (Trump, Brexit, etc) by allowing “misinformation”. It was at that point they started to “moderate” their content which is code for taking off whatever they are told to take off by the powerful big state institutions that can harm them.
The threat to democracy and freedom isn’t tech companies, it’s an out of control state technocracy empowered with many more instruments of coercion and violence than the rest of us.
In short when the state starts to behave like a mob family and deploys thugs to put us into line, that’s when we know we’ve lost freedom and democracy.
I think that’s a vast oversimplification
Why is YouTube pushing Gay Pride? Have they been threatened by the government if they don’t?
It’s a cultural shift and nowhere and no organisation is immune.
I’m on a cheesy boat tour in Stockholm and the English commentary is full of stuff about sustainability etc.
As for Amazon, they are just hypocrites with no principles- not exactly news.
Which government told Twitter to ban Jordan Peterson for using incorrect pronouns?
I await with interest how the woke left handle the World Cup in Qatar. ‘out of respect for our hosts’ is a phrase I expect to be popular, when the time comes for rainbow laces and ‘The Knee’
Doubtlessly, the same Loyds banking group which threatens UK consumers with account termination for insufficient wokery or other suspected political transgressions also has lucrative business ties to all gulf states.