How Money Flows From Amazon to Racist Troll Haven 8chan

[TheBlackAdder]

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You may or may not know about the 8chan website—but you are most likely familiar with its work. The rudimentary message board is a wellspring of racism, violence, and criminal activity online and in the physical world.

Most famously, 8chan hosted a manifesto from the Christchurch shooter, who killed 50 people at mosques in New Zealand. After the massacre, 8chan users flooded the website with posts praising the mass murder. Before killing 11 people at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh, the shooter posted threatening messages on 8chan.
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Books.audio doesn’t sell products directly. They must be purchased through Amazon. Generally, they are also made available through Amazon’s Audible—its audiobook subsidiary. The ads directing users to Amazon.com also appear directly on 8chan, without any Amazon branding.

The books.audio audiobooks are sold through Amazon.com for a fee of between $3 and $17. They are also free if you sign up for an Audible.com subscription. If someone buys a books.audio audiobook through Amazon, books.audio gets a cut of 40 percent of the retail price. If the audiobook is downloaded by an Audible.com subscriber (who pays $15 per month for an all-you-can listen account), books.audio collects about 20 percent of the retail price. If someone subscribes to Audible.com and listens to a books.audio book as his or her first audiobook and then stays a subscriber for two months, books.audio gets a $75 new customer bonus.
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Watkins’ selection of Amazon as his financial lifeline to the outside world is not an accident. The company does not run away from websites that others deem toxic. When thousands of advertisers abandoned Breitbart after the right-wing website featured racist categories like “black crime,” Amazon continued to run ads on the site.

Much more at the jump:

https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-money-flows-from-amazon-to-racist-troll-haven-8chan?ref=wrap

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[msongs]

1. maybe the ceo of amazon doesn't care about people, only more and more money nt