Amazon
| A highly popular online retailer. |
https://www.amazon.com/ 
Started: 1994
Founder: Jeff Bezos
Subgroups: A9.com, Amazon Web Services, Alexa Internet, Audible.com, comiXology, Digital Photography Review, Goodreads, Internet Movie Database, Junglee.com, Twitch, Zappos
Member of: Business Roundtable, European Policy Centre
Founder/Owner: Jeff Bezos
Staff: 230800
Amazon is a highly popular online retailer with a very wide inventory. It was set up by Jeff Bezos in 1994.
Contents
Censorship
The Holocaust
In March of 2017, Amazon banned 9 books about the Holocaust.[1]
In support of Hillary Clinton
Luke Rudkowski tweeted in 2017 that Amazon had deleted all the critical reviews (as measured by the number of stars) of Hillary Clinton's book, What Happened. This lead people to criticise the book but give it 4 or 5 stars.[2]
Authors with Amazon pages
Amazon pages of Books
Related Quotations
| Page | Quote | Author | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Big Tech | “So one of the things that these five companies have done kind of masterfully is create these platforms that startups have to use to get to customers. So they all own these cloud-storage services. So Amazon is an example. If you want to store your media online - so, for example, all the movies that you watch on Netflix are actually stored on Amazon servers - so every time you use Netflix, Netflix is kind of paying Amazon for that kind of storage.
Yeah. It's surprising, first of all, because they're such different companies. You wouldn't really know - you wouldn't really think that they would have that kind of connection. And then they're also competitors. Netflix makes original TV shows and so does Amazon. And so, you know, in this way, Netflix has this dependence on one of its competitors. There are lots of different examples of this though. There - you know, all app makers have to put their apps in the Apple app store or the Google app store. And when they sell in those apps, 30 percent of that money goes to Apple or Google. They all have to advertise on Facebook or Google to get customers because that's become the way to advertise on digital platforms. And so any new app - Uber, Airbnb, Netflix, all the other sort of smaller companies online - have to go through these five to get to their customers. And what ends up happening is that other companies succeed, but always these five benefit off of that success.” | Farhad Manjoo | 26 October 2017 |
| Platformization | “The much loved upstart that gains network effects by managing incentives across the ecosystem loses its benevolent streak as its power increases. This may take many different forms. Amazon, for example, often uses its platform’s data to determine which product lines to get into; eventually it outperforms the merchants who were doing well with those products. Twitter, likewise, has repeatedly changed policies to work against the ecosystem. A recent example saw Twitter pushing live streaming service Meerkat off the platform after acquiring its competitor, Periscope.” | Sangeet Paul Choudary | 8 May 2017 |
| Platformization | “So one of the things that these five companies have done kind of masterfully is create these platforms that startups have to use to get to customers. So they all own these cloud-storage services. So Amazon is an example. If you want to store your media online - so, for example, all the movies that you watch on Netflix are actually stored on Amazon servers - so every time you use Netflix, Netflix is kind of paying Amazon for that kind of storage.
Yeah. It's surprising, first of all, because they're such different companies. You wouldn't really know - you wouldn't really think that they would have that kind of connection. And then they're also competitors. Netflix makes original TV shows and so does Amazon. And so, you know, in this way, Netflix has this dependence on one of its competitors. There are lots of different examples of this though. There - you know, all app makers have to put their apps in the Apple app store or the Google app store. And when they sell in those apps, 30 percent of that money goes to Apple or Google. They all have to advertise on Facebook or Google to get customers because that's become the way to advertise on digital platforms. And so any new app - Uber, Airbnb, Netflix, all the other sort of smaller companies online - have to go through these five to get to their customers. And what ends up happening is that other companies succeed, but always these five benefit off of that success.” | Farhad Manjoo | 26 October 2017 |
Employee on Wikispooks
| Employee | Job | Appointed | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jay Carney | Senior Vice President of Global Corporate Affairs. | 2 March 2015 | Former White House Press Secretary |
Known members
4 of the 15 of the members already have pages here:
| Member | Description |
|---|---|
| Keith B. Alexander | Chief of the NSA, now infamous for his mendacious denials regarding the illegal mass surveillance of US citizens. |
| Jamie Gorelick | USDSO, Deputy Attorney General of the United States 1994-1997, Clade X |
| Indra Nooyi | Indra K. Nooyi. Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, PepsiCo. |
| Patty Stonesifer | Bill Gates crony |
Documents sourced from Amazon
| Title | Type | Subject(s) | Publication date | Author(s) | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Document:The Shadow Factory | Book | CIA The Pentagon National Security Agency | 2008 | James Bamford | The workings and scope of the US Military-Intelligence complex focussing particularly on the NSA. Introduction. |
| File:Report from Iron Mountain.pdf | book | War NWO | 1967 | Leonard Lewin | A precient analysis of why war is considered necessary by the power-brokers of the western world |
| File:Spycatcher.pdf | ebook | MI5 | Peter Wright | Memoirs of former senior MI5 officer Peter Wright. | |
| File:The Holocaust Industry.pdf | book | "The Holocaust" | 20 July 2000 | Norman Finkelstein | Devastating criticism of the way in which Jewish organisations use their Official Narrative of "The Holocaust" to extort money from the alleged perpetrators and of those who weren't sufficiently focused on that extortion |
