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Amazon’s removal of right-wing militia merch

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Society & Culture, Science, Technology

4.61.3K Ratings

🗓️ 14 January 2021

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Amazon employees first flagged right-wing militia groups products weeks ago, and on Tuesday the company finally took unprecedented action. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:30.1

Just days after riots at the Capitol, websites responded by

0:38.0

de-platforming a president and his supporters, and now Amazon has started to remove their merch from the Amazon Marketplace.

0:46.0

Amazon employees first flagged right-wing militia group products weeks ago,

0:51.0

and on Tuesday, the company finally took action.

0:53.7

Joining me is Recodes Jason, Hey Jason.

0:56.1

Hey Teddy.

0:57.1

So Amazon employees have been sounding alarm for a while.

1:00.0

Tell me like what exactly were they pressuring the company to do before this?

1:04.7

Yep so according to my sources at some point in December some employees

1:10.6

started asking management why the company was selling merchandise bearing the names and logos of two right-wing militia groups.

1:20.7

One's called the oathkeepers, the other is three percenters.

1:25.0

And then after the attack on the Capitol on January 6,

1:29.0

you know, some of these employees were demanding that this merchandise be taken down.

1:35.9

And was this the first time that Amazon employees had spoken out about sort of these products

1:42.0

in particular?

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