Amazon reportedly plans to add a content filter to an internal messaging app in the making. Would ban words that reflect the company’s working conditions or pertain to organizing a union.

With the filter in place, the app would block or flag messages that include words like’- Union,”’slave labor,””ka living wage,” and more.

A source told the intercept that Amazon executives met in November 2021 to discuss the creation of a social media platform specifically for employees. It would allow employees to create posts called’shout-outs’.

During the meeting, executives reportedly discussed’the dark side of social media’ and agreed to monitor employees’ posts. The source reports they devised a list of’bad’ words.

In addition to profanities and other inappropriate words, the intercept says it would also include’- unfair,””’ master,”””””** slave,””*** pay raise’.’this is dumb””””’only kinds of words that may be screened are ones that are offensive or harassing, which is intended to protect our team.