Amazon.com Contributes to Sexual Exploitation

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Amazon.com has been named by the National Center on Sexual Exploitation as one of the “Dirty Dozen” of businesses most contributing to sexual exploitation in its annual list:

endsexualexploitation.org/amazon/

This is a tough pill to swallow as my family and I buy things from Amazon frequently and use its streaming service in lieu of TV/Netflix/etc. Still, we’ve spent our last dollar there and I’ve deleted my Amazon Prime account with them. Unfortunate as we’d just paid the annual Prime fee too. I’d encourage you all to do the same and contact Amazon letting them know their practices are unacceptable.
 
Thanks for posting. All that money eventually gets to a company. I was upset when they promoted that transgender film. Good idea to boycott them, I think I will too. Small businesses and Walmart can get my $.
 
Its funny how the boycott lists can change though. I remember buying Doritos because I really liked their pro life superbowl commercial only to find out shortly later they promote on their twitter page #lovehasnolabels promoting same sex relationships. Love does has labels! Love is patient, kind and follows the natural law!
 
I buy almost all my books, some household items, CDs, gourmet food items, and vitamins from Amazon. More.

I won’t buy from Walmart,though. They exploit their employees and treat them terribly.
 
LittleFlower378 said:
Its funny how the boycott lists can change though. I remember buying Doritos because I really liked their pro life superbowl commercial only to find out shortly later they promote on their twitter page #lovehasnolabels promoting same sex relationships. Love does has labels! Love is patient, kind and follows the natural law!
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I think in the end, one will find these companies doing good and bad, boycott may be in order often or most of the time but one might find a company, they might do good things for vets, they may help the homeless and then, one balances it against the disagreeable things they do.
 
Path_Finder said:
I think in the end, one will find these companies doing good and bad, boycott may be in order often or most of the time but one might find a company, they might do good things for vets, they may help the homeless and then, one balances it against the disagreeable things they do.
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Yes its going to be hard to find the perfect company but there are some out there. Charity Mobile for one. The ones that support Same Sex Marriage are the ones I find most troubling, because we are at such an important time where the family is being attacked and laws have a chance to be reversed. Abortion as well, some of these companies dump money to support Planned Parenthood.
 
Lily_Bernans said:
I buy almost all my books, some household items, CDs, gourmet food items, and vitamins from Amazon. More.

I won’t buy from Walmart,though. They exploit their employees and treat them terribly.
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I’m guessing though, that a retail store at least has a greater percentage of actual employees than an online store. I can see where both Walmart and Amazon would have the effect of displacing employment of people.
 
Dan_86 said:
Amazon.com has been named by the National Center on Sexual Exploitation as one of the “Dirty Dozen” of businesses most contributing to sexual exploitation in its annual list:

endsexualexploitation.org/amazon/

This is a tough pill to swallow as my family and I buy things from Amazon frequently and use its streaming service in lieu of TV/Netflix/etc. Still, we’ve spent our last dollar there and I’ve deleted my Amazon Prime account with them. Unfortunate as we’d just paid the annual Prime fee too. I’d encourage you all to do the same and contact Amazon letting them know their practices are unacceptable.
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Do you watch TV? That’s as bad. I’ve never seen any pornography, etc. on Amazon. I think you’d have to hunt it down, but it’s everywhere really, if people want to go look for it. I can avoid it on Amazon, on my Kindle, etc., but I can’t avoid sex scenes, sexual innuendo, unmarried couples in bed, gay couples, unwed mothers, etc. on TV shows. The comedy shows seem the worst. “Friends” is terrible. They live for sex on that show. “Seinfeld” is bad, too. I won’t go near the new shows. The ads for “Younger” are nauseating. I’m sure one could find “bodice-ripping” romances in Walmart, DVDs with sexual scenes, etc., and Walmart treats their employees like this was a third world country. I only watch the news on TV now, and a few other things I know will be “clean.”

I’ll stick with Amazon for now. They do provide excellent prices, free shipping, and great customer service, and they make it easy to avoid the porn, really easy.
 
Lily_Bernans said:
I buy almost all my books, some household items, CDs, gourmet food items, and vitamins from Amazon. More.

I won’t buy from Walmart,though. They exploit their employees and treat them terribly.
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Amazon isnt much better when it comes to treating their employees good, not the lower level distribution center/ order fulfillment warehouses, they have extremely high turn over at the location by our airport.

Ive known a couple people that worked there and they all ended up quitting after the first week, they regulate bathroom breaks, if you are just one minute late from clocking back in from a break or shift, that is an automatic write up, and the worst thing imo, if you quit without giving a full 2 week notice, they are somehow able to reduce your final paycheck to minimum wage…that tells me they must have ALOT of people quitting frequently!
 
True, Amazon may do good things as well but that doesn’t somehow negate the fact that they sell sexually explicit material and (if you read the link) actually host pornographic websites through their web hosting service.

Christ calls us to a life radically opposed to what the world would call normal or comfortable. I cannot in good faith pour my dollars into a company like Amazon. Just because there’s filth on TV as well doesn’t mean we should just throw our hands up and give up on aligning our life (and pocketbook) towards the eternal.
 
Path_Finder said:
I think in the end, one will find these companies doing good and bad, boycott may be in order often or most of the time but one might find a company, they might do good things for vets, they may help the homeless and then, one balances it against the disagreeable things they do.
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In the end, I think that’s what one has to do because we can’t avoid remote material cooperation with evil all the time. We don’t know if our clothes are made in a sweatshop or not unless we buy American exclusively, and that’s hard to do. Almost every company supports some things we endorse and some we can’t stand.
 
Lily_Bernans said:
In the end, I think that’s what one has to do because we can’t avoid remote material cooperation with evil all the time. We don’t know if our clothes are made in a sweatshop or not unless we buy American exclusively, and that’s hard to do. Almost every company supports some things we endorse and some we can’t stand.
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You are correct in that it is impossible to spend 24hrs a day researching where our dollars go, nor should we. So yes we cannot avoid all remote material cooperation with evil. But you didn’t take it a step further, which would be to say that a known cooperation with evil is sinful.
 
Dan_86 said:
True, Amazon may do good things as well but that doesn’t somehow negate the fact that they sell sexually explicit material and (if you read the link) actually host pornographic websites through their web hosting service.

Christ calls us to a life radically opposed to what the world would call normal or comfortable. I cannot in good faith pour my dollars into a company like Amazon. Just because there’s filth on TV as well doesn’t mean we should just throw our hands up and give up on aligning our life (and pocketbook) towards the eternal.
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I can easily avoid the porn on Amazon, though, and I can’t on TV shows. TV forces it on you if you watch certain shows, especially comedy shows.

I’m aligning my life toward the eternal by avoiding the filth on Amazon and elsewhere and not watching it on TV. Some people may find filth funny, but I don’t. I heard them call unmarried sex on “Friends” “getting lucky.” A whole episode of “Seinfeld” was devoted to the contraceptive sponge that was taken off the market. No. I’ll watch the clean stuff.
 
Dan_86 said:
You are correct in that it is impossible to spend 24hrs a day researching where our dollars go, nor should we. So yes we cannot avoid all remote material cooperation with evil. But you didn’t take it a step further, which would be to say that a known cooperation with evil is sinful.
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It only is if you can get the same thing at a comparable price at a different store. It would be good to avoid clothes made in a sweatshop in China, etc. if you can get clothes of the same quality and price that are not made in a sweatshop. If you can’t, then it’s permissible to buy from the stores that use sweatshops. I try to buy American made clothes, but that’s not always possible. Usually, it is for me, but not always.

It is always possible for me to avoid the filth on TV, though, unless I’m at someone else’s place, and I can’t tell them what to do, of course.

Everyone has to follow his or her conscience. I think it’s worse to force it on viewers who watch TV than it is to carry it to buy for the people who want that sort of thing. I’ve never seen porn, etc. on Amazon because I never go looking for it.

I"m not condoning it on Amazon! I hate it. I’m not surprised, though, because Jeff Bezos has often made the statement that he wants to sell “everything.” He wants to run Walmart out of business. Don’t think that’s going to happen, but he’s taken a lot of business away from them. I even bought banana pudding mix at Amazon because I couldn’t find it in the grocery, or I would have bought it there. God knows what they support.
 
Lily_Bernans said:
It only is if you can get the same thing at a comparable price at a different store. It would be good to avoid clothes made in a sweatshop in China, etc. if you can get clothes of the same quality and price that are not made in a sweatshop. If you can’t, then it’s permissible to buy from the stores that use sweatshops. I try to buy American made clothes, but that’s not always possible. Usually, it is for me, but not always.

It is always possible for me to avoid the filth on TV, though, unless I’m at someone else’s place, and I can’t tell them what to do, of course.

Everyone has to follow his or her conscience. I think it’s worse to force it on viewers who watch TV than it is to carry it to buy for the people who want that sort of thing. I’ve never seen porn, etc. on Amazon because I never go looking for it.
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Thank you for your charitable reply. I think this is perhaps the point where we part ways in our opinion and as you stated it is an individual’s duty to follow their own well-formed conscience.

Amazon sells none of life’s necessities. I won’t be in jeopardy of any sort, only a bit more “uncomfortable” in not having recourse to their services. For me, the point of no return is the fact that they host pornographic websites, i.e. they sell their infrastructure to pornographers so they can spread their filth.
 
To say that the Amazon Kindle e-reader is evil or to be condemned because it is a vehicle through which objectionable material can be viewed is to say exactly the same thing about every single device through which CAF is accessed.
 
Tarpeian_Rock said:
To say that the Amazon Kindle e-reader is evil or to be condemned because it is a vehicle through which objectionable material can be viewed is to say exactly the same thing about every single device through which CAF is accessed.
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Hi Tarpeian Rock, certainly the device itself is morally neutral. It’s simple a tool like any other that can be used for good or ill. The problem is it is produced by sold by a company with very clear cut immoral practices. You wouldn’t buy a shovel from NeoNazi Inc. would you?
 
Lily_Bernans said:
I buy almost all my books, some household items, CDs, gourmet food items, and vitamins from Amazon. More.

I won’t buy from Walmart,though. They exploit their employees and treat them terribly.
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Really? I didn’t get that memo… and I’ve been working there for 18 years…🤷
 
mikekle said:
Amazon isnt much better when it comes to treating their employees good, not the lower level distribution center/ order fulfillment warehouses, they have extremely high turn over at the location by our airport.

Ive known a couple people that worked there and they all ended up quitting after the first week, they regulate bathroom breaks, if you are just one minute late from clocking back in from a break or shift, that is an automatic write up, and the worst thing imo, if you quit without giving a full 2 week notice, they are somehow able to reduce your final paycheck to minimum wage…that tells me they must have ALOT of people quitting frequently!
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I have heard that, too, Mikekle, about Amazon not treating their lower level employees well. Shame. They should know better.

I think the turnover at their distribution factories is extremely high.
 
 
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