Bezos deletes 'LGBTQ+ rights' and 'equity for Black people' from Amazon policies

You learn how to hack multiple other services together, and you coordinate with multiple third parties + their different applications. There are no other feature complete competitors. The S in AWS is what defined it. The AW part doesn't matter; anyone can do that with enough cash, effort, and skill. Welcome to the global monopoly, thank you for your support by using AWS.

Not sure if DigitalOcean stacks up in similar ways or not. Also not sure what their politics are.

I'd be curious about options as well.

That fuck bezos link is gold, thanks for sharing.

except this will be the start of the year they stop doing that, because now it becomes the "popular" side to not support it.

Oh, you know trump will issue an EP revoking Pride Month, and all the businesses will forget about it. It makes me sick.

I'm glad people like you exist. I've cut down spending through COVID and have been mostly in bunker mode living well below my means and paying off my mortgage. I don't owe anything to anyone outside of land tax and some utilities. I'm late to the game removing Amazon from the picture, but my last order has already been made. What sucks is I thought after a few years of hunkering down things would finally get better and I'd be in a great position to move forward. I hope more and more people join this effort. I see this as being AS important as the 2nd amendment. The right to bare arms is useless if you have to fight an entity with most of the money, major parts of the supply chain, and all the intel.

I'm actually doing the same. I'm going to really consider, to the best of my ability, and with the best information available, the political background of the things I spend my money on. If I -need- a semi-frivolous thing, I'll buy from a blue state or used on eBay. No hiring of the trades for me; if I can't do it myself, I probably don't need it that bad (I live in a red state). No Amazon, Facebook, and especially no Tesla (not that I was ever interested in the first place). I will try to support artists and other people who have a politically agreeable mission, however.

What's the worst that can happen? I end up with a giant pile of money I would have blown? I'm fine with that.

That's a weird graph. Why does each label have 2 bars?

We're you asleep a couple months ago... They were welcomed back with open arms...

God I hate it so much

Unfortunately, you are still making money for companies that then pay AWS with the money you give them. Not saying you shouldn't do what you're doing, but it's basically impossible to escape Amazon entirely and use the internet now.

Every little bit helps though.

I'm over a year ahead of you. Dumped prime when they announced ad tier is default for streaming.

The downside is waiting 2-3 extra days for them to ship something you order, if you do order through amazon. They make sure to not release any order whatsoever without prime for days to entice you to bribe them for standard service.

Good on you. Voting with your wallet is exactly what you should do in a free society.

Gotta cancel all of your account if youre at all serious. They keep your financial info if you dont

I did my best by not being born in America

I think the vast majority of Americans on Lemmy did the same.

same here homie, same here.

"I tried to save you from the empire by voting for the empire"

Honestly, fuck Americans and their insane discourse. Absolutely psychotic, delusional, brainwashed bullshit. You have NO fucking clue what is happening on this planet. This society is a plague on the world, just unleashing an endless series of massacres, and none of you even understand why.

The fact that you would vote for someone complicit in genocide, without even figuring out WHY, and actually think you did something GOOD. My fucking god. And nobody reply to me with this "Trump would have been 5% worse" bullshit, because I'm done hearing it. You are not the heroes of the story. You've been indoctrinated to support "global military empire lite" with your fear of "global military empire original". You sacrifice the lives of the victims of the empire for your illusion of democracy and quality of living, that never existed in the first place. Stop fucking patting yourselves on the back.

Deleting LGBTQ policies is nothing compared to the slow drum of global warming that might wipe us out as a species.

I tried to save y'all by advocating for third parties, who would actually bring in the same level of EO you're seeing from Trump but instead to focus on education, military cuts, and moving towards green and nuclear

Ew, this comment is gross.

I mean we can all do our small part. 🤷‍♂️ Something is better than nothing.

Yes AWS is the standard for most of the internet, but do you think Amazon won't notice if a whole bunch of users en masse decide to stop buying things from their warehouses?

They have much more built out offerings, but smaller hosting providers and on-premise are always an option regardless. Obviously not including "Azure".

Worth checking to see if the thing you are getting refunded for is sold directly from Amazon or if it's from a "store". Often times the "store" could just be some bloke trying to make some money using Amazon. If you get refunded for one of those, they take it from that store, not their own coffers.

Greedy people didn't survive the French Revolution. Just saying.

Maybe someday I'll be a millionaire. Hopefully it won't be at the same time a loaf of bread is $100 and a million dollars is poverty.

Makes them easier to identify and target.

more like mask flip season. they will implement it back with the same speed they unimplemented next time democrats take charge. I think one should collect all these news and keep them for four years so one can compare the news four years later side by side with these. that is if Trump doesn't go full monarchy on USA's ass

Good job. I haven't in years, and can say small though my part is, it's worth the minor inconvenience

I've held off for a while because I'm somewhat rural and I do order a bunch of stuff, but I can't keep paying this asshole.

Just sucks I'm going to be spending a lot more now that I'll have to pay for shipping costs :(

I haven't bought anything from Walmart, Amazon, or Target in over a decade, probably close to two. Sure it costs a little more, but I try to source as much as I can from Costco which helps balance but otherwise I do almost all my shopping from local groceries (surefine, tops) and local hardware stores (franchises I know but generally locally owned)

Maybe there's more to the Target stuff, but it's a little tough for me to heavily criticize them for pulling merch that was getting employees threatened and hurt. I still wish they'd have stuck to their guns and found a way to protect their workers. I think personally what's worse was the Bud Light debacle. They caved because of profits, not dangers, and passed off both sides.

For those that are unaware, it's the slogan of The Washington Post, which Bezos owns.

Sadly, if you're on the Internet then you are providing revenue to Bezos.

Way ahead of you: I've never used Amazon.

I haven't bought on Amazon in 6 years. When marketplace vendors from other sites ship Amazon packages to me, I usually report them. I've had two of the marketplaces reply that they had no policy against this, and I let them know that I will choose to shop elsewhere from now on.

It really hasn't been very much trouble to avoid buying from Amazon. There's no shortage of online shops, and Amazon's prices aren't always lower like they used to be.

It's because they want to use the US to achieve world domination.

I wish I were kidding.

https://www.eucloud.tech/eu-alternatives-to/aws-amazon-web-services Many of them have "object storage" available as an option.

Literally anyone else unless you're a giant business, S3 is super expensive.

I only have experience with on prem, but have heard good things about backblaze.

On prem.

I recommend going with Backblaze, they're cheap and in my experience very reliable so far. If you're looking for other alternatives, you could get a storage box from Hetzner. It's not S3 compatible but instead supports Samba, FTPS, SFTP, Borg, Restic, RClone, and others. I suggest avoiding Wasabi due to their strange / shady? pricing model where you pay 3 months of storage cost for every deleted file.

Contabo maybe? I never used their S3, but they do offer it and at least their VPSs are really cheap

We have lost our rights, had our rights restricted, or have had our rights routinely violated on the following issues:

• bodily autonomy -- abortion

• unreasonable search and seizure -- the federal government (FBI, NSA) digitally track everyone. Cops can legally take your money and property without cause or due process. Cops selectively enforce laws. State attorneys general selectively enforce laws. The TSA (airport security) is arguably unconstitutional.

• torture and indefinitely imprisoning people without charging them with a crime.

• trans people's right to bodily autonomy, freedom of liberty, equal rights, equal access to healthcare, etc. Florida is forcibly putting trans inmates in with inmates of the opposite-gender and forcing trans people into conversion therapy. Trans people are facing widespread persecution and legislative genocide, depending on the US state. States are trying to make being trans a crime by calling them "sexually obscene". I fully expect the federal government will try to do the same, as it's part of the Project 2025 playbook.

• our court system is overall corrupt and corrupt judges do not rule based on facts, science, what the law says, what is morally right, or what is best for the people.

• the right to a speedy trial is being violated. The right to have a public defender adequately represent you when accused of a crime is being abused and violated.

• slave labor is allowed and legal in this country. Prison inmates are allowed daily temporary release to work for private companies but then the prisons and government steal most of their earnings.

• our human right to a clean environment is being violated. Our water, air, and land is being polluted with a lack of regulation and oversight.

• rights of immigrants, asylum seekers, and others is routinely violated and now, once again, millions of people are being threatened with deportation.

• black people have never had equal rights in this country. I can't even begin to list the extent of their oppression here. Racism is on the rise politically now too.

I could keep listing points for hours, if not days.

I've been using Ebay a lot and I find it to be way better. I'm buying directly from the sellers and I usually get stuff cheaper there. Especially when I buy used stuff that is in good condition. So saving the environment at the same time too.

minorities tend not to want their hard earned money going directly to their own oppression. we don't necessarily think it'll change anything. it's a matter of personal principle