The elite are really the only members of society who can successfully dismantle tabloid media like AMI, see: Peter Theil v. Gawker.
perhas because they are also the only ones who would care to do so?
No Thank You, Mr. Pecker
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#172Earlier quoted context omitted.
Exactly - I'm trying to imagine being in his place and being open about all of this...and it's HARD. It's easy for me to want HIM to do it, but as much as I think being disgustingly wealthy would be great...I'm sure I'd still be really nervous about pressing that button. And it's easy for us to say "Well I wouldn't be in that place to begin with", but as I much as I not be in this EXACT place, most of us have made mi…
> most of us have made mistakes that we deeply regret and fear getting out Agreed, probably Jeff Bezos has made those mistakes as well. However I fail to see any mistakes of his threatened to be revealed.
> However I fail to see any mistakes of his threatened to be revealed.
Cheating on his wife?
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#173Apparently AMI and David Pecker's non-prosecution agreement for the Michael Cohen stuff is contingent on them not continuing to do crime. So i guess that's out the window now. https://twitter.com/nycsouthpaw/status/1093654471157170177
Depends on the analysis I suppose. This one makes it sound unlikely that the agreement will be voided: https://twitter.com/renato_mariotti/status/10936583665834229...
"blackmail is legal" is a pretty depressing take, but it does seem plausible.
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#174I respect him even more now. We are all human. Nobody wins this 'moral crusade' that takes up so much airtime. We should be much more focused on the existential threats that the entire biosphere is dealing with, not the 'dick pics' of the world's richest man. He's just another dude at his core it seems, happens to be founder of Amazon though.
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Regardless of what you've typed, at least don't outright lie and completely expose your troll. A fundamental truth is 2+2=4, and the speed of light is 299,792,458 m/s. What is typed above is not.
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#175He chose Medium. @ev is 3 out of 3 (and a podcast pivot).
big kudos but he should remove the popups , with the extra gdpr prompts it's unbearable
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#176I respect him even more now. We are all human. Nobody wins this 'moral crusade' that takes up so much airtime. We should be much more focused on the existential threats that the entire biosphere is dealing with, not the 'dick pics' of the world's richest man. He's just another dude at his core it seems, happens to be founder of Amazon though.
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Nobody is perfect. Gandhi was apparently racist and John Lennon was an egomaniac, I admire them both still for their efforts to make the world better than what it was before.
Bezos still a human being like me and like you, whether you love him or hate him. I didn't say he cured cancer but last I checked, he puts ONE BILLION DOLLARS A YEAR into Blue Origin to help our species keep evolving towards a spacefaring civilization. How many other people are doing that?
I am aware of the grey-area Amazon operates in but it's still better than the oligarchs before Big Tech. I'll give my money to Amazon before Wal-Mart, I know that. Amazon invests billions of dollars in retraining warehouse employees who are getting replaced by automation for high-demand jobs. Amazon didn't have to do that, but they made a decision to and I'm sure Bezos signed off on it.
If you disagree with Amazon and AWS that much, build something better.
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#178Slightly off topic, but the fact that the world's richest man who owns a tech giant chose to publish this on a closed platform like Medium should be worrisome for the future of the open web. On the other hand, this might just be the biggest brand endorsement for Medium till date.
for all its faults medium is not a closed garden
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#179Jeff Bezos, if you're reading this: Do a Playgirl spread, for charity. Spreadeagle. Defang them. -------- Edit: defang them (pun intended... get it? "fang") by doing Playgirl now, and publishing those sext images alongside. And do it for some great charity. Everybody will have a huge laugh over it, Jeff will be a hero, and National Enquirer will have nothing to publish.
I agree. Once you've torn them limb from limb, once Pecker is rotting in a jail sell and the only thing the National Enquirer is useful for is recycling them into cup holders; then you walk into Playgirl and do a photo shoot of these exact photos just to make sure they all know it was never about the pictures.
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#180Slightly off topic, but does anyone know why this is so low on HN? It has more votes and is more recent than anything except the "How I didn't make a billion dollar company" post, but is at rank 11. https://imgur.com/a/bifDABu
HN penalizes post randomly sometimes. The last time I had one of my blogpost pretty high on the front page, it lasted an hour and then went directly to 5th-page. It gave me an impression that everything on the FP is heavily handpicked.
Those penalties can occur simply from users flagging posts, which is likely what happened here, given the vitriol elsewhere in-thread about Amazon.