[refresher]

The relevant excerpts from the job listings:

>Analysts must be capable of engaging and informing L7+ ER Principals (attorney stakeholders) on sensitive topics that are highly confidential, including labor organizing threats against the company, establish and track funding and activities connected to corporate campaigns (internal and external) against Amazon, and provide sophisticated analysis on these topics

>Analysts must be capable of creating and deploying sophisticated search strings tailored to various business interests and used to monitor for future risk; Engaging business leaders (L6+) directly is core to this support, and may cover topics including organized labor, activist groups, hostile political leaders.

>Analysts are expected to close knowledge gaps by initiating and maintaining engagement with topical subject matter experts on topics of importance to Amazon, including hate groups, policy initiatives, geopolitical issues, terrorism, law enforcement, and organized labor

[Nacdor]

> labor organizing threats against the company

If anyone needed confirmation that unions are beneficial to employees, Amazon just handed it to them on a silver platter.

[missedthecue]

I don't think people doubted that... but that doesn't necessarily imply that they are a net good. For instance, the Chicago Plumbers Union was fantastic for the plumbers but ensured the city's water supply was poisoned for decades at an increased cost to citizens.

[sangnoir]

> ...hostile political leaders.

Nice! It's always good to see corporates fight against elected politicians that are hostile to projects like HQ 2. This is not dystopian at all.

[Thorrez]

Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman paid Twitter employees to spy on dissidents. He was also the guy that ordered the murder of Jamal Khashoggi. One of the spied-on dissidents was a friend of Khashoggi.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/former-twit...

[sangnoir]

1. MBS was not elected - a qualifier I included intentionally.

2. What Twitter would have needed was a counter-intelligence analyst (reactive), as opposed to Amazon's proactive intelligence post. Now that I've written it out, what twitter needed was better security - not COINTEL.

3. If companies start dabbling with intelligence and counter-intelligence against political actors directly (instead of offloading to state apparatus like the FBI), then we are reaching Deus Ex levels of Dystopia

[kmlx]

dystopian?

democracy is a flawed system so politicians should expect pushbacks.

[sangnoir]

Yes - Dystopian. You're likely familiar with the dystopian trope where unchecked corporate entities supersede nation-states. I got reminded of that here.

In my ideal democracy, I do expect pushback, but I'd like for it to come from actual voters. If you believe that not only are "corporations are people (my friend)", but should be able to go mano a mano with individual politicians (not lobbying), here's a quick thought experiment: how would you feel if that sentence were from a document by TikTok Inc?

[kmlx]

first off, the "corporate entities" are not entirely unchecked. they have shareholders who vote and boards who oversee the company.

second, the "nation states" are on their last legs. the globalization of this tiny planet, the birth of the international citizen, and the truly global nature of the internet will make sure this happens.

the pushback against local democracy by global players is entirely justified considering it's inherently local nature.

on your last point, tiktok, as any other corporation is entitled to act as they see fit.

what we're actually missing is a global government, with global elections that can keep in check both the local governments and the global corporate players, creating a level playing field. this should be the ultimate wealth unlocker.

[BitwiseFool]

Previous employment with the Pinkerton Detective Agency is preferred.