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First a screenshot of a Jeff Bezos Tweet: "I shared this note with the Washington Post team this morning:

I’m writing to let you know about a change coming to our opinion pages.

We are going to be writing every day in support and defense of two pillars: personal liberties and free markets. We’ll cover other topics too of course, but viewpoints opposing those pillars will be left to be published by others.

There was a time when a newspaper, especially one that was a local monopoly, might have seen it as a service to bring to the reader’s doorstep every morning a broad-based opinion section that sought to cover all views. Today, the internet does that job.

I am of America and for America, and proud to be so. Our country did not get here by being typical. And a big part of America’s success has been freedom in the economic realm and everywhere else. Freedom is ethical—it minimizes coercion - and practical — it drives creativity, invention, and prosperity."

@briantylercohen.bsky.social‬ on Bluesky then captions that with: “Bezos bends the knee. Pathetic.”

@junlper.beer‬ then quote posts that with “i think everyone needs to stop framing whats going on as ‘bending the knee’ and what’s really happening which is ‘they’re finally feel free to do what they’ve always wanted to do’”.

@rat-carpet.yeen.wang‬ replies: “BILLIONAIRES: oh i’m uhhh being forced, to bend the knee, to my little pet”.

@junlper.beer‬ replies to them: “billionaires continually saddened they are taking more control over the world. they never wanted that”.

  • Sergio@slrpnk.net
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    4 hours ago

    Bezos could have set up a financial endowment of some sort to make the wapost independent, right? He didn’t, bc he knew he’d need to leverage it at some point.