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Amazon Employees Stage the Biggest Act of Tech Defiance So Far

Hundreds of Amazon employees have openly violated the company’s communications policy by publicly criticizing their employer, in what is arguably the largest act of collective disobedience yet by white collar workers at a major tech company.

On Monday, more than 30 Amazon employees, identified by their names,appeared in a video speaking out against the policy while holding signs that read: “We will not be silenced.”

“Amazon employees are hired for our ability to have backbone, to speak up when we hear something wrong,” the narrator of the video says. “Now...Amazon wants to silence us for speaking out to the press and on social media.”

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