Afzal7

They’re a company, they’ll tailor their marketing and virtue signalling based on whatever increases sales in each market. It’s pretty obvious that in the UAE, and in fact much of Asia in general, slapping a rainbow everywhere and proclaiming "LGBT rights" won’t sell and is instead a great way to get kicked out of those markets if they fail to comply. Not everyone wants to embark on your personal moral crusade, shareholders don’t care about your feelings – unless it costs them money.

They’re doing whatever works in each marketplace. In the US pro-LGBT (more specifically – just slapping a rainbow onto anything) sells, so it’s good for marketing there, thus Amazon, like other companies, will use it. In many other countries, like the UAE, people don’t want that, it won’t help sales and will lead to Amazon being penalized, so they won’t do it.

They’re a corporation after all, maximizing profits is their goal.

You make a good point about Amazon essentially forcing their staff to urinate in bottles, yet still the majority of Americans won’t boycott them for that. They’ll say they care, then renew their Prime membership for the next year. So why would Amazon choose to die on this hill?

Zuckerberg obviously watched Ready Player One and decided that was going to be the future of his company and society. I hope he fails miserably.

Plans "to move your digital items" to me is just like saying plans to move stuff you don’t own. Because that’s what digital content you pay for is – an online licence, it’s never yours. Might as well build-in a way people to display their bank balance, that way you can prove you’re rich without wasting money on some pixels that spell out Gucci.

It was mediocre, at the best of times. I’m even enjoying The Umbrella Academy S3 a lot more than I did Obi-Wan Kenobi. And I was hyped for the latter whereas I didn’t even know the former was coming. Disney dropped the ball on this one, if you’re gonna milk a beloved franchise at least do it right. Andor looks set to be underwhelming too, but I won’t bother watching that anyway.

It did but to be honest it was still a really enjoyable movie. As long as you don’t go in expecting an Oscar-worthy script or cinematography. I’m still not a fan of Tom’s American accent so that was quite off-putting as well, but grab some popcorn and switch it on in an evening with the family and it’ll provide some nice entertainment.

Heck even in the final day of the US’s withdrawal from Afghanistan (you know when they finally packed their bags, admitted defeat and ran after causing 20 years of total destruction), they killed a family of 10 people in a drone strike!

That was America’s gift to the Afghan people, and what a way to cement their legacy there. Finishing it exactly how they started – killing innocents.

Yet some people here would have us believe Assange is a criminal simply because he exposed US crimes and they wanted him to do that to Russia instead. They can’t see their own hypocrisy.

If you want documents on Russia and Putin so bad, go get them and release them yourself. What you said is an utterly ridiculous excuse used to attack Assange in a failed attempt to discredit him. I’m no American nationalist, so it means nothing to me.

Totally agree.

So when China identified actual American spies after an inside source outed them, then relentlessly hunted them down and ended them one by one, that was good with you, right? Surely it must be if you think what Assange did is a crime and it’s even remotely acceptable to ship him to the US to his death.

The US is actively the perpetrator of those far bigger crimes though. Some of which Assange exposed.

Horrible decision. I hope his appeal wins, the US is hunting him because he exposed their dirty tactics, terror and double dealings around the world. The UK is making a huge mistake with this, the Americans aren’t fans of journalists of his calibre, they’ll kill him. Hopefully Australia can step in to prevent it.

It’s astonishing to see American nationalists and right-wingers calling him a "Russian agent" and other such nonsense.