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Amazon's Charity 'AmazonSmile' Funds Anti-Vaccine Groups (theguardian.com)
An anonymous reader quotes the Guardian:
Amazon appears to be helping fund anti-vaccine not-for-profit organizations through its charity arm, the AmazonSmile Foundation. The AmazonSmile fundraising program -- through which Amazon donates 0.5% of the purchase price of a shopper's Amazon transactions to an organization of their choice -- is promoted on the websites of four prominent anti-vaccine organizations... Numerous other anti-vaccine organizations are also listed by Amazon as eligible for the donations.
Amazon's donations are just the latest example of how US tech companies have -- wittingly or not -- helped to promote and finance the anti-vaccine movement... Not-for-profit organizations are key players in the anti-vaccine movement in the U.S.
Amazon's donations are just the latest example of how US tech companies have -- wittingly or not -- helped to promote and finance the anti-vaccine movement... Not-for-profit organizations are key players in the anti-vaccine movement in the U.S.
Really? I donate to organizations that try to put home meth labs out of business and also to educate people about dangerous and expensive supplements that they should not be taking without a physicians supervision. Also I noticed that many anti-vaxx websites question untested vaccines of questionable value. I rarely see any site that is against MMRs.
We did not used to have to advertise vaccines, and embark on huge censorship campaigns about them. What happened?
To receive donations, the organization must be a 501(c)(3) public charitable organization. If these groups get approved by the IRS for this status, it would be hard for Amazon to stop it.
So that's the new moneymaking machine
Are we talking about pro-plagues organizations?
I have 25 named accounts that all praise your work in an ironic manner. You quote several of them left and right, and I find it amazingly funny. Everyone laughs at you, fool.
When:
a.) a 501c3 is issued without vetting
AND
b.) a 5013c certification is simply accepted without looking into it who/what is behind it.
If the system allows it, it NOT the users fault. Just because you CAN, doesn't mean you should. Go fast. Break things.
Maybe because anti-vaxer stupidity has triggered extremely dangerous outbreaks of disease?
Just a thought.
Impersonating & LIBELING me now too? Grow up moron. I don't have AIDS + I do not do what you project you do @ truckstops.
APK
P.S.=> Seriously - grow up.... apk
This is just one instance where this becomes glaringly obvious. Personally, I would not mind so much that a lot of people are complete morons. But the anti-vaxxers do harm others and that is not acceptable.
Most ACs are not even worth the keystrokes to insult them. Be generically insulted by this and ignored otherwise.
See subject: I have a loon (I suspect it's /. username Khyber) who stalks &/or impersonates me on /. - I address it w/ https://slashdot.org/comments.... & he must have the "devil in him" w/ too much time on his hands he isn't using constructively in order to harass/stalk/libel me https://slashdot.org/comments.... etc. everyday on this website. He's obsessed with me acting it out like the psychotic loon he clearly is.
* Sorry to have seen you waste your time in posting & @ least you are doing something constructive (allegedly) imo.
APK
P.S.=> In any event, there ya go... apk
... it kind of defeats the "charity of your choice" nature of the program. "Your choice of the charities we approve of" isn't what they advertise.
Everyone is laughing at a crazy person in you who wastes his life stalking, impersonating and libeling APK actually. You are deluded and clearly clinically insane.
What the hell are you talking about? Virtually all of the anti-vax movement is against MMR.
The entire movement started with a paper written by an unscrupulous doctor who was paid by lawyers for find something the could sue MMR vaccine manufacturers for and he basically tortured kids with repeated rectal examinations and other procedures. Then he claimed the kids' sudden onset of unusual behavior was caused by the vaccine (because there's no way kids would act differently after being forcibly anal probed by a doctor, after all).
Nobody asked what a moron would do or what a moron wants in terms of grammar or numbers, you don't matter to the discussion nor the reality. Sorry, FTFY.
Anti-vax is an unpopular political alignment that Amazon does not wish to be publicly associated or seen supporting. Once they realize they are supporting that, they have a decision to make one way or another.
Doing nothing = complicit with the accusation that they support it. That has costs.
Basic shit, sorry you're so confused about numbers and grammar but that's not related.
found the anti-vaxer
skip the simpering attempt to appear neutral, just come out and say it
when you can't even own your beliefs from an AC account, you basically confirm the stereotype that anti-vaxers are either morons or grifters
Shall we be real here? Using hosts files as a security measure is not sustainable. In fact, anyone who uses hosts files for something beyond simple DNS testing is deluded and insane. Hosts files can only emulate A records. MX? Lol. PTR? Lol indeed. And maintaining a hosts file is truly an idiotic endeavor.
Give it up, moron, nobody except the most retarded people in existence actually use your dumbass VB script to update their hosts file.
I'll be real and tell you that you really got shot down by real security pros and sites quoted by APK https://slashdot.org/comments....
Legal immigrants from 2nd world countries (like the ones Trump prefers the taste of penises from) come with these diseases all the time. You're just a racist Republican faggot-nazi, die of AIDS or rope-around-neck poisoning, either one.
Good luck figuring out which of those security pros are my sock puppet accounts :)
Yeah, from the cousins of the people who put fluoride in America's drinking water, turning brains into jelly, just so they could mold 'em any way they wanted to - thanks to this mental floss. The International socialist.
Vaccinations are suspected to be covertly supported by a coven who secretively call themselves "Bernies". They are Socialist Blue collarless, jobless, Volvo driving welfare cheats bent on destroying the new world order, and herald into power a left wing International Sanderneesta Government.
If destroying America ain't bad enough, now they're promoting herd stupidity with vaccines that probably do more damage than good.
Despite the fraudulent news mess, some president's own Dr. Harry Freakin Boringstein found that vaccination is based on shoddy science and overdosing Bernies. Just think of the children! Vaccinations put them at risk of developing a predilection for the bad guy buzz.
They want to change our flag to pure driven slush blue. They don't care what the Red, White and Blue really stands for. Red: for the rednecks who rule; White: well, I can't say - it's really that politically incorrect these days; and Blue:...BLUE? Shit not blue again! It should be green like money. Oh god, that'd make us Hungary. Which reminds me, I gotta go get something to eat.
Nutters. Simply nutters.
Bullshit, they could remove it from the options of their system on a whim.
Holy shit are you even listening to your own words.
Yes they could remove anything "on a whim". So maybe someone who works there decides to remove pro-gay charities "on a whim". Or a charity giving aid to refugees...
Once you start doing things "on a whim" it ends badly for everyone.
What is you damage that you even care if these groups get money? Don't like it, contribute or form a pro-vaccination group and get out the word! Don't start blocking out everything you personally find wrong or crazy for anyone else to view.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
Some random white Amerifat tard came into my office. I fired that fat fcuk right there. Poor bastard cried and asked what he should do next. I told him to keep on keeping on, get on his knees and keep sucking that FoxNews dcik
Willful and reckless endangerment of minors in a mass fashion, attempting to incite biological warfare with weapons of mass destruction (specifically, the use of measles, mumps, and rubella to target populations of minors).
Hang 'em high.
So look through the list of other charities and there's tons of good ones...a bunch of schools often use Smile to help fundraise.
If you don't know a good charity I know I can recommend a small school northern MN - Vermilion Country School. It's a small school in a rural area trying to provide different experiences for students who don't get a lot of options. Donation funding goes towards school supplies and field trips.
Yes, they could remove the anti-vax charity from their system or demand the charity not give to that cause, on a whim. What part of this is hard for you, retard? They run their own show, they can do whatever they want with it.
If the bad PR from supporting anti-vax outweighs the good PR from the "let me be free to be stupid on YOUR system" types, like yourself, they will absolutely without a second thought get rid of you and your ridiculous faggot shit.
(You're a moron, not a mind.)
"What is you damage" - Learn English, idiot. Then come blather your ridiculous Colorado incel faggot shit at me like anyone cares. (Nope!)
Bye now, nazi propagandist faggot. You don't get a say, sorry.
These diseases were dead in the US. They didn't reappear because of anti-vax. Why did they reappear? Can you be intellectually honest?
Hint: does it have to do with the fact we have millions of vaccinated people pouring into our country with no checks of any kind?
They have been designated as non-persons due to the threat they pose to the open borders/anti white narrative.
We live in an age of de-platforming. I encourage it all because it will just bring about legislative changes we need to protect us in our new digital town squares. People should have the right to object to vaccines and spread their message, others should have the right to object to that message and spread their information. Anything else is a pathetic and craven way out of dealing with an issue while giving corporations ever more control of our society and it's discourse.
On the Oregon Cost born and raised, On the beach is where I spent most of my days
a placebo or experimental mind control drugs, it must be thallium. Oh wait,...*thump*.
Your group wants to take kids out of control of parents and forcibly vaccinate. That's the perfect recipe for losing hundreds of years of community education level in one day.
We should exterminate all shitty sand n1ggers like you, that alone will eradicate 90% of all pathogens originating from your home shit holes where ever you crawled out from, most likely by begging to accept you into a developed country by sucking some stupid n1gger cock at an embassy. Go back to your home cave, you useless piece of shit n1gger, help your stupid ugly as fuck cousins there.
"AC account"? AC posting happens _without_ account, dear know-it-all.
And no, I'm vaccinated and happy for it, and I'd certainly not advocate not getting vaccinated for sound numerical reasons like that "tipping point" stuff that requires at least a certain amount of the population to be vaccinated for the thing to be really effective.
But that doesn't change that apparently several people here are advocating censorship for their anti-anti-vax-ideology. I say ideology, because all I see is adherence to an idea ("vax good!!1! anti-vax bad!!1!11!!1") with nothing but ad-hominem attacks for defenses. That is, you are as bad as the anti-vaxxers in your "defense".
So what you require from amazon is to pick a side and show it by censorship in favour of your cause. This is a bad thing for pro-vaxxers, as you discredit the cause in the eyes of the anti-vaxxers. Calling them all names without a clue of who you're really dealing with certainly doesn't help. You're part of the problem, too.
That doesn't make me neutral, or an anti-vaxxer. Your assumption of same with your "you're either with us, or against us" rhetoric, certainly doesn't make you friends for your cause.
But it's telling that you are unable to bring anything to the discussion but ad-hominem attacks, posted as AC, complaining about posts written as AC that happen to disagree with the letter of your dogma. You're stuck, and again, that makes you part of the problem. You will not convince a single anti-vaxxer this way.
It's ok with me if you don't vaccinate. But if your kid contracts, say, the measles, then you pay all the bills. And if your kid infects someone else then you pay those bills too. Stop being an idiot and vaccinate your children. It's not just a personal choice - if affects society as a whole.
They fund almost whatever charity you want. The vaccine industry is a big money and power grab. If they work, you shouldn't care if I and my family are not vaccinated; you should be covered, right? -- and the government shouldn't be telling me what kind of medical care I have to have. There are other ways to prevent disease, such as improving your immune system with diet and supplements, which Big Pharma doesn't want you to do because they will lose money, and the government doesn't want you to do because they will have less control over you (and probably vice versa). People who are immunized can still carry the disease and, in some cases, the immunizations themselves pass it on to others. And most of the people who are catching the diseases are already immunized against a different strain of the virus or bacteria, because you can't possibly immunize for everything, and often even against the commonest strains, because they only offer temporary protection. Meanwhile, the onslaught of vaccinations is causing an epidemic of autoimmune disorders that we had barely seen before. Immunize yourselves, if you want, but quit attempting to force this flawed health solution on everyone.
The inflow of unchecked, undocumented illegal aliens is what triggered these outbreaks. Stop being a goose stepping fool and see where this is only going to get worse and get worse by the design of Big Government.
Sorry, wrong troll for this site. Most here are already Koch suckers.
Most antivax people I know, and I know a lot... oppose them for three reasons: many vaccines are only derived from abortion stem cell lines, a strong distrust of aluminum adjuvants and the perceived link to autism, asperger spectrum, and autoimmune disorders, and lastly and more recently provax militancy fueling a distrust of government and big pharma and left-wing SJWs that make up the biggotry against antivaxers.
No one here seems to know anti Vax motivations. Here are three:
1) Many vaccines are only derived from abortion stem cell lines
2) strong distrust of aluminum adjuvants and the perceived link to autism, asperger spectrum, and autoimmune disorders
3) more recently, provax militancy fueling a distrust of government and big pharma and left-wing SJWs that make up the biggotry against antivaxers.
Provax people come off folks in the same vein as climate change nuts like OAC. Someone interview her stupid ass in ten years when the world hasn't ended... again.
Antivaxers are also made up of homeopathic oriented liberals who think the Vax are unnatural and poisonous to the body.
> "AC account"? AC posting happens _without_ account, dear know-it-all.
lol. if you aren't an anti-vaxxer you are still dumb as fuck. the fact that you find minutae like grammer and whatever the fuck you are complaining about there as meaningful is beyond pathetic. enjoy the spelling mistakes I left for you, have fun figuring out which ones are on purpose and which ones are because I'm so inferor to you!!!
> left-wing SJWs
Ahh... yet another winner of life's inferiority contest mewling about big ole meanies.
Letting your kids die of the measles to own the libtards. Muhhh-guuuh!!!!
That is complete bull. If vaccines actually worked the children and adults would not be affected by the diseases. But as we are seeing they are.
Pharmacist being selling fake vaccines for decades.
We never asked you to pay anything asshole, not that you would have anyway.
The people vaccinated ARENT affected, but crops of outbreaks are popping up in places where the anti vaccination movement is the strongest. Explain that. The people who arent getting vaxed are at risk of getting the disease and spreading it to other non vaxxed kids.
Another conservacuck fallacy. 2 in the same thread. Amazing.
Soros is a commie. Netanyahu and his butt buddy Trump are Nazis. They will be removed from office, tried for treason, and hang like the original nazis did.
Sure, I am happy to let free speech in, as long as those that excercise their rights in a dangerous way are held responsible. For example if anti vaxxers convinced a family to not vaccinate their children, if the children die or suffer any disability for it, they should get sued, and possible criminal charges.
Freedom of speech does not mean freedom from consequences.
what? You make no sense. And if you're anti-vaccination then you're the asshole to society.
Repeat prescription as required
The CDC provides a list of side effects that occur with each vaccine. Interestingly enough they have ratios for all of the side effects except for severe adverse effects, which they call "very rare". They don't give a ratio, instead they give a 1 in 1 million doses answer. The reason they do this is if you actually calculate the number of doses children receive of a vaccine, this number actually translates into 1:13,513 doses. That doesn't translate as "very rare" to me, in fact vaccines by the CDC's own admission cause (look on their website also "very rare" reactions) "deafness, long-term brain damage, long-term seizures, coma, lowered consciousness, etc. etc.). That's all on their website. What's not on their website however is actual trials with controlled study groups using a placebo vs. an actual vaccine. There’s never been a controlled study to a placebo (beyond one tiny Gardasil 9 study with 400 people in it). That's why CDC uses weasel words like "rare" "very rare" to describe reactions. They truly don't have actual research to back up their claims that vaccines are safe and effective (despite saying it in the news over and over and over and over again).
That's what I'm confused about. I use AmazonSmile for all of my purchases and have the ASPCA set as my charity of choice. AmazonSmile allows customers to choose from a large number of charities, but I guess some busybody assholes just can't stand it when people have opinions and values that differ from their own.
For the record, I think anti-vaxxers are stupid, but I wouldn't dare try to tell them they can't live their lives the way they want. I have nothing to fear from them, I'm vaccinated.