and as per American tradition by "free markets" we of course mean heavily consolidated and monopolized markets dominated by the biggest, most politically powerful companies, in turn protected by corruption and widespread regulatory capture
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Ben Mullin
SCOOP: WaPo Opinion editor David Shipley is out. Jeff Bezos emails staff about a change to Post Opinions: "We are going to be writing every day in support and defense of two pillars: personal liberties and free markets."
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I assume this is mostly just code for more center-right corporatist trolling of the progressive left
This kind of censorship bc that's really what we're talking about when an owner states what opinions matter.
This is a full frontal attack on the first amendment
it's why all major op/ed sections are basically troll farms now
#BLOCKWAPO
Merely bitching about them is not going to send a message.
And anyone who hasn't unsubscribed to everything Bezos is doing it wrong.
"the Free-market Capitalists!