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They testified at a city council meeting. That’s it. That’s the whole crime.
Three Amazon engineers stood up at Seattle City Council hearings and asked for regulation of AI data centers. They called the industry’s spending an “all-costs-justified AI build out.” They wore no masks. They hid nothing. They did what Americans are supposed to do.
Then Amazon came for them.
The day after the council vote, all three engineers were called into separate Zoom meetings with an Amazon HR representative who said he was “investigating a concern” about their testimony. They were told disciplinary action was possible. Up to and including termination.
The complaint says Amazon was monitoring their political advocacy before the Seattle City Council and was seeking to identify additional employees who had engaged in political activities.
They were watching. Taking names. Building a list.
Amazon Employees for Climate Justice filed a civil rights complaint on behalf of the three engineers, accusing Amazon of violating a Seattle law that prohibits companies from discriminating against employees based on their political ideology.
Amazon says it doesn’t tolerate retaliation. Amazon also fired the two founders of the same group back in 2020.
No disciplinary action has been confirmed as of June 22, 2026. The Seattle Office for Civil Rights will now investigate.
One engineer said he does not regret testifying.
This is what it costs to tell the truth out loud. Your job. Your livelihood. Your name on a list inside a corporation spending two hundred billion dollars this year on the machine you just questioned.
This is Cricketpocalypse.
