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Amazon job ad for an intelligence analyst to track 'labor organizing threats'

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It turns out that https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24343361 was posted earlier and also on the front page, so we've merged most comments thither.

'After this story was published, Amazon deleted the job listings and company spokesperson Maria Boschetti said in an email that "the job post was not an accurate description of the role — it was made in error and has since been corrected." The spokesperson did not respond to follow-up questions about the alleged mistake.' (source: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/qj4aqw/amazon-hiring-inte...)

Since that article gives a lot more information than https://web.archive.org/web/20200901125228/https://www.amazo..., we've switched the URL to it.

Submitted title was "AMZN scraps job ad targeting “labor, activist groups, hostile political leaders”". Please don't use titles that way. If you want to say what you think is important about an article, do so by adding a comment to the thread, so that then your view will be on a level playing field with everyone else's.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...

How is minimum wage or labor unions different from competing suppliers engaged in price fixing? (The suppliers being workers, and the product, human labor)

This is not rhetorical, I want perspectives I may have missed.

My initial thought is that it Is similar to price fixing and has negative consequences, but there are perceptions of positive consequences that make it socially unacceptable to not go along with it?

As a note on presentation - can we avoid stock ticker shortenings in article titles and switch AMZN to Amazon?

I’ve always wondered why the FCC was in charge of regulating T cells.

You see it happen on HN often because of title length limits.

Not so often. Looks like 9 cases of AMZN in the last year compared to over 3000 for Amazon.

Incidentally, abbreviations are not a good way to work around HN's title limit. The idea is to find a shorter meaningful title, not to use tricks to squeeze more in. This is nearly always possible.

Yes, that was my only reason for employing the abbreviation. In any case, it appears that the mods have chosen to switch out the title with a different one (my original carried an excerpt from the job posting which is now removed).

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