Amazon have teamed up with Mermaids

Is this for US Amazon too?

Wasn’t there talk of one of their mega warehouses having workers testing positive for COVID-19 and possibly working conditions and contracts being directly responsible.
How convenient that the story gets diverted.
Don’t fall for it !

It takes the story away from their overcrowded warehouses, serf employment practices and unsafe working conditions. Costs barely nothing but woke washes the business.
Nothing to see here ! Woke washing in action.

I went to complain last week then saw the bit about complaining to the charity first. If it's ok to do so I'll complain direct on the Gov site. Mermaids make my skin crawl and my blood boil, preying on vulnerable children and raking in cash from gullible idiots.

I think it’s worth using that link to complain about a charity if you have safeguarding concerns - for example if they are encouraging children to keep secrets from parents, or encourage children to use private chat facilities.

In order to join Mermaids' 'youth forum' for teens, children are told they have to give a phone number: "This is so a member of the admin team can call you for a confidential chat prior to approving your membership. Our number will come-up as "withheld" when we call. This is for complete confidentiality."

mermaidsuk.org.uk/young-people/mermaids-youth-community-application/

Mermaids are encouraging children to give personal details to a person they don't know, who phones them from a withheld number.

I think it’s worth using that link to
complain about a charity if you have safeguarding concerns - for example if they are encouraging children to keep secrets from parents, or encourage children to use private chat facilities.

And you could also complain if you have concerns that a charity gives misleading or inaccurate information as well, for example providing medical advise which isn’t supported by the NHS guidelines.

I think the public need to always report concerns, look at what happened with kidscape- they weren’t accountable to anyone for a long time and things when badly wrong there.

Would there be any traction in complaining to the charity commission? They say to complain to the charity first unless you have concerns about a serious matter such as abuse.

I think concerns about child safeguarding is a big enough concern. Also they kept putting out very wrong information about puberty blockers after the NHS had changed their guidelines. I worked for a medical charity and we had to make very sure that we did not give advice that was not evidence based. Everything we put on out website had to have solid research behind it.

www.gov.uk/complain-about-charity

Good. How that lot maintain a charitable status I'll never know.

Well done snippypants.

I just got the reference to the Charities Commission. I assume they have started to see a few complaints and have decided to take a second look.

I am pretty certain they don't care about what I think and are mainly concerned with how they appear to a group of Californian billionaires.

Equally I am happy to scroll down Google a bit further to find alternative suppliers. Especially those who pay taxes and are more environmentally friendly (less packaging, supporting the high street, and fewer delivery vans.)

I did, via my account and on-line chat, so they have a record of my lack of orders. No reply

Don't just boycott it's pointless. Write to them and tell them why. I've alteady boycotted for their awful treatment of staff and tax evasion.

Yay, As well as eBay, I have discovered Argos.

I needed to go out yesterday and my route passed a Sainsbury's. So ordered online, then nipped into Sainsbos and the Argos counter to collect it, and on my way. (I did pick a time when there was likely to be no queue.) No needing to be in, no extra packaging waste, no extra van journey down my street.

Why do firms feel the need to support controversial stuff, when they know it will offend at least part of their customer base. Mermaids is so awful. Why are they trying to push us into a societal change that goes against the instincts of so many mothers.

(This is the cover)

This is in the US, but relevant I think:

This is the lesson my publisher, Regnery, learned last week when Amazon informed it that Regnery wouldn’t be permitted to run a sponsored ad for my book, “Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters.” Amazon’s stated reason for barring the ad—a simple picture of my book’s cover—was this: “It contains elements that may not be appropriate for all audiences, which may include ad copy/book content that infers or claims to diagnose, treat, or question sexual orientation.”

www.wsj.com/articles/amazon-enforces-trans-orthodoxy-11592865818

Ohhhhhhh ffs it's so good for quick delivery

@NotYourCisterinAus

I only use Amazon to support my ebook habit, but still...!

(That said, this has inspired me to do a little research, and it looks like it's possible to convert epub files to mobi via Calibre. So it should be possible for me to buy ebooks from other sellers, but still be able to use my Kindle. Good. Amazon's rotten business practices have been making me uneasy for some time now.)

The only drawback is that you have to connect your ebook to your laptop every time. I hate Amazon's business practices, but so far I haven't found anything that matches their Whispersync instant download facility for when I'm on the road. All I have to do is connect to the internet on my phone and I can have a new book ready to read in 30 seconds. That's where they have the edge, unfortunately

Good. I hate Amazon and it's ethics so anything which makes people think twice about using it is fine by me.

I only use Amazon to support my ebook habit, but still...!

(That said, this has inspired me to do a little research, and it looks like it's possible to convert epub files to mobi via Calibre. So it should be possible for me to buy ebooks from other sellers, but still be able to use my Kindle. Good. Amazon's rotten business practices have been making me uneasy for some time now.)

I have a background in both writing and assessing funding applications, though have not done one for while. Happy to have a go for a suitable safeguarding project, if anyone wants to PM me.

The people who get funding are normally the ones who apply.