YES Network is a regional sports channel partly owned by Amazon, giving the company another foothold in live sports broadcasting and media influence. That 15% stake still means Amazon profits from every ad, subscription, and broadcast. Supporting it feeds into the same corporate machine responsible for worker exploitation, union busting, invasive surveillance, and contracts that back apartheid and war crimes.
Amazon is rated High Impact because its harms are systemic and interlocking.
Environmental Harm: Delivery fleets, aviation cargo, and data centers generate massive emissions and plastic waste, while public pledges mask lobbying against climate regulation.
Human Rights Violations: Workers face surveillance, injury-level quotas, and unsafe delivery speeds. Migrant workers in Saudi Arabia and elsewhere face wage theft and coercion.
Military & Conflict Complicity: AWS is central to surveillance states. Project Nimbus embeds Amazon in Israel’s occupation and war crimes, supplying AI and data services to its military and government.
The result: consumer spending that powers a machine which entrenches inequality, accelerates climate collapse, and sustains state violence worldwide.