Let this very stupid move be the death knell for Amazon

Amazon Is Ending an Important Privacy Feature for Alexa Echo Devices By the End of the Month
https://www.entrepreneur.com/business-news/amazon-echo-ends-do-not-send-voice-recordings-option/488677

From @paulkrugman.substack.com "I don’t know about you, but I don’t think #Trump’s problem is that he’s doing a poor job of explaining his #plan. I think his problem is that he’s offering #fake answers to #fakeproblems, and the public — unlike, apparently, the #WashingtonPost — isn’t buying it."
#uspoli
https://open.substack.com/pub/paulkrugman/p/the-stages-of-trumpist-economic-grief?r=4t3klr&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false

LOLOL. Of course he does!!!!

Trump Praises Bezos’ Makeover of the Washington Post
https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-praises-jeff-bezos-makeover-of-the-washington-post/

Um, I ended my #WashingtonPost subscription a year or two ago so I don’t visit the site much but….

since when did they GO DARK on the homepage? Black background, white text.

Given their slogan “Democracy Dies In Darkness,” um, one must ask….

IS THE POST TELLING US DEMOCRACY IS DEAD!?

I mean wtf?!

#FirstAmendment, #1A, #FreeSpeech, #FreedomOfSpeech, #FreePress, #FreedomOfThePress, #Bezos, #JeffBezos, #Amazon, #WashingtonPost, #MarkZuckerberg, #Zuckerberg, #Meta, #Musk, #ElonMusk, #X, #PoliticalCartoon, #EditorialCartoon, @Rattoons1776

https://crooksandliars.com/2025/03/abridge-too-far?utm_source=social&utm_medium=twitter&utm_content=100119

Free Thought Purge at Washington Post Continues After More Censorship

The reputation of the Washington Post continues to get buried 6 feet under after another columnist quits following censorship.

https://www.freezenet.ca/free-thought-purge-at-washington-post-continues-after-more-censorship/

Welp, I just closed my #Amazon account.

My first order with that service was on the 22nd of October 1999. I ordered a copy of the User Friendly comic book. At the time, I was living in a student home.

If you think it's because Jeff Bezos supports #fascism in the #USA, directly and indirectly with the #WashingtonPost, you'd be wrong.

I mean, those are great reasons for sure! But whatever moral strength I may possess, I am also a creature of convenience. I managed to get away from #Google ...

« #RachelMaddow shares video of Rep #JohnLarson channeling the outrage of his constituents @ the anticipation that Trump's top donor, #ElonMusk, is intending to destroy #SocialSecurity in order to privatize it. #WashingtonPost reported..Wed that Musk was planning cuts to Social Security's telephone customer service, but by the end of the day, those plans had been cancelled. Between the public outcry and the exposure in the #media, the pushback..appears to have worked »

https://youtube.com/watch?v=6mFpn8BJLV4&si=til2N_i6ajZ0jQJk

Why Ruth Marcus Left the Washington Post https://www.newyorker.com/news/essay/why-ruth-marcus-left-the-washington-post

[The New Yorker]: Why I Left the Washington Post.

Owner Jeff Bezos wants to transform the Opinions section of the paper, where I worked for forty years. After the publisher killed my column disagreeing with that move—it appears here in full—I decided to quit. By Ruth Marcus, Wednesday, March 12, 2025

https://www.newyorker.com/news/essay/why-ruth-marcus-left-the-washington-post

"#Boycott and resist institutions/companies that have continually aligned with the interests of #Trump:

- Get off #Twitter/X and find different EV cars. If you want an electric car, buy something else. Elon #Musk is wreaking havoc.
- Don’t buy from #Amazon and unsubscribe from The #WashingtonPost. #JeffBezos owns both The Washington Post and much of Amazon. He dictates WAPO editorial content in favor of the oligarchy and funds Trump interests.
- Boycott #AirBnB! #JoeGebbia, co-founder of Air B&B, has joined #DOGE.
- Unsubscribe from the #LATimes! #PatrickSoon-Shiong owns the LA Times, and dictates editorial decisions that support the slide to fascism.
...(1/2)

Although I cancelled my #NewYorkTimes subscription way back in 2016 or thereabouts, and have been very critical of NYT, if someone felt they needed to choose between #NYT and #WashingtonPost today, I would recommend NYT in a heartbeat. This would have been unthinkable to me even 6 months ago. Some followers may remember me defending WaPo as recently as October 2024. Everything has changed. WaPo is now the propaganda machine of one billionaire, who doesn't care a whit whether the paper makes money or not. I can only assume the "non-evil" people still working there are now frantically searching for new work elsewhere, planning an early retirement, or possibly deluding themselves that this, too, shall pass.

"#WashingtonPost columnist and Associate Editor #RuthMarcus, who has worked at the paper for four decades, says she can no longer stay there.
"Jeff's announcement that the opinion section will henceforth not publish views that deviate from the pillars of individual liberties and free markets threatens to break the trust of readers that columnists are writing what they believe,not what the owner has deemed acceptable," Marcus wrote in a resignation letter obtained by NPR."
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/10/nx-s1-5323136/washington-post-editor-ruth-marcus-resigns

In a thorough confirmation of #TimothySnyder's argument that #WashingtonPost's new "personal liberties & free market" editorial policy is fundamentally dehumanizing because of how it subjugates humans to fictional notions, #WaPo calls the Trump stock market crash "sustained heavy losses" — words usually used to describe casualties of #war. On behalf of everyone who was killed by #Russia in #Ukraine, fuck you #JeffBezos.

https://snyder.substack.com/p/unfreedom-at-the-washington-post

Stay the course! NO AMAZON, MARCH 7 THROUGH 14, 2025!