[chipotle_coyote]

> It's a fair criticism

Is it? It appears to be "Oh, sure, it's okay when Jeff Bezos does it, but not when this guy does it," but what are the two "its" in question here? On the one hand, a mysterious, anonymous purchaser buying a small newspaper's archive in order to completely suppress it; on the other, a major newspaper was sold in the open by one rich family to another in part to ensure the paper's continued publication. I'm as up for criticizing the disproportionate influence of billionaires on the public sphere as much as anyone, but these two things are manifestly not like one another.

[kodah]

As I said earlier, from our perspective at this moment with the facts we have today they're not the same. I also said Jeff is a master at the long game and nothing he does is for charity. WaPo has some kind of purpose, so if this is an angle that people pick apart then to me it's just good auditing. I mainly took issue with the commenter telling someone else not to post that. It's easily ignored.