If trump goes full putin, the leopard will literally be eating his face or maybe he'll be served some polonium tea. I doubt he'd get thrown out of a window since he probably has so many bodyguards. I don't understand how these billionaires think they'll be safe from his wrath.
Amazon walked back this plan before it even began, I think this was lower level employees leaking the complicitness of their upper management. Bezos never wanted to go against daddy Trump.
They just bent the knee. The leopard really only likes eating the poors anyways. Only eats the wealthy and powerful after it's done eating everyone else.
I want amazon to suffer, but if you are gonna side with Trump here then you are just shooting yourself in the foot. Adding tariff costs to price listings on amazon would do a lot to get people mad at Trump.
Democracy, liberal or not, can only exist where there is a free press. That's what was so concerning about Bezos' actions with WaPo in the lead up to the election. His and others interference with the press is what has helped us all descend into authoritarianism. Imagine a world without the likes of Rupert Murdoch or massive ownership consolidation of most sources of information.
While I'm not defending our current situation for news, there is a reason conditions are the way they are. The general unprofitability of running a news network in the modern day, especially when both print and online advertising rates are rock bottom, forces all but the biggest players out.
Social media, 24/7 cable news, and forum websites are many peoples' main sources of news, often due to their entry price of 0. As a result, the death of well funded independent journalism was inevitable, and we're all suffering the consequences of that. Especially those who don't know how or don't care to verify their sources.
At this point I tend to have better luck running a Wikipedia search on the latest events and checking the citations section than checking any major website/app's feed, especially with most media feeds being curated nowadays. Unless open platforms gain wider adoption, where people all over the world collaborate to find answers to the world's problems, I doubt things will improve.
As long as the press is a capitalist enterprise it will be owned and directed by capitalists. This not a malfunction of the system, or an undesirable byproduct, its core to the maintenance of capitalism that its press be owned by capitalists.