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More than 200,000 people had canceled their digital subscriptions by midday Monday, according to two people at the paper with knowledge of internal matters. Not all cancellations take effect immediately. Still, the figure represents about 8% of the paper’s paid circulation of 2.5 million subscribers, which includes print as well. The number of cancellations continued to grow Monday afternoon.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

next start finding alternatives to Amazon

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 hour ago

Yeah but what am I going to do for my next space flight? The options are down to Bezos, or Musk.

Why can't someone like Taylor Swift start a space exploration company?

[–] [email protected] 65 points 1 day ago (1 children)

People need to cancel Amazon prime instead

[–] [email protected] 4 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

I'll be doing that soon enough...

[–] [email protected] 6 points 17 hours ago

Same just gotta do this last dog food order..

[–] [email protected] 24 points 21 hours ago

bezos would learn his lesson if his actual life was in danger and not just his money. people will have to get serious if they want to send a message.

[–] [email protected] 85 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I have a funny feeling Jeff doesn't own the paper for the money.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I think Elon mismanaged Twitter tremendously but a very clear "this is my toy and I'll break it if i want" message was sent and a very dangerous message it was. Gives me the same vibe. Bezos doesn't need to own it but he does and he'll do what he pleases.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I'm glad this happens in a world where newspapers endorse candidates, but I also don't get why newspapers are allowed to endorse candidates in the first place. I guess that is the least of our concerns when you look at media bias, but still....

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 hours ago

Think of it in terms of "out in the open". Fwiw most (all) media orgs have a bias and as such are more likely to endorse a certain candidate. That could be President, it could be mayor. Would you rather have that endorsement in the open or hidden in context?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Newspapers are allowed to endorse candidates because the first amendment protects free speech. While I may agree with you that endorsements and news media stumping for ANY candidate is problematic and reeks of propaganda, it is, for better or worse, protected by the constitution.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 hours ago

Indeed, it's a shame that companies are considered people.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 18 hours ago

I mean when the choice is either facism or democracy, I'd assume being unbiased is a little hard. After all, the nazis did attack the press first to instill propaganda.

[–] [email protected] 209 points 1 day ago (81 children)

It would hurt this sociopath Bezos a lot more if people also canceled Amazon services en mass

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[–] [email protected] 75 points 1 day ago (17 children)

Finally got around to canceling my Prime membership. I've been relying on Amazon to get all the shit I can't buy in person, but I'll figure out some other way to get those.

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[–] [email protected] 151 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (11 children)

To anyone unsubscribing: Remember to subscribe somewhere else instead. If not you're just helping Bezos achieve his goal of the death of journalism.

@[email protected] is one good alternative.

As others have said, if you want to hurt Bezos, target Amazon.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Most of the web runs on AWS good luck avoiding Amazon

[–] [email protected] 1 points 13 hours ago

Just about a third anyhow. Remember the great fiasco where an engineer was turning off one server and mistakenly turned them alll off and Facebbok etc was down for 6 hours? Like a goddamn dream... a wonderful place.

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[–] [email protected] 83 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Something darkly funny to me is all the people who work there whose job it is to grow subscribers seeing their last three years of hard work flushed down the drain on the whims of the owner.

I'd love to sit in on performance reviews for Q4's end.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 19 hours ago

I’ve been there. It sucks sooooooooo much. Especially if you’ve made family sacrifices (missing events etc.) to travel to get those deals closed - just to see them just evaporate in a whim.

That’s why I got out of Tech Sales and into management.

[–] [email protected] 104 points 1 day ago (4 children)

WaPo - "Democracy dies in darkness"

Bezos - "I can deliver darkness to everyone in America in 2 days or less"

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