WH Tells Federal Agencies To Cancel Their NYT, WaPo Subscriptions

[rick]

If his companies work the way the upper levels of his administration work, the key people have all been informed to ignore his Tweets.

[steviedee111]

@zlj2011

#1, doesnt matter. They’ll just read it on their phones or at home.

Correct. Stopping the shipment of trees is stupid.

[rick]

If Bezos wanted, he could make free home subscriptions available for government workers.

I don’t see that happening - that would be a huge portion of the DC market.

[emiliano4]

I appreciate the snark.

But I do not like this at all. What follows this?

[sparrowhawk]

So how long before he demands that Federal agencies stop paying for cable, but just CNN and MSNBC? (Because he totally thinks that’s possible.)

[zlj2011]

Do you really think Bezos gives a shit about the money? It’s only in the last two years or so that he actually focused on profits at amazon. Really.

[zlohcuc]

In the name of all that is TRANSPARENT!

[steviedee111]

@sparrowhawk

So how long before he demands that Federal agencies stop paying for cable, but just CNN and MSNBC? (Because he totally thinks that’s possible.)

It’s called parental controls.

[emiliano4]

This might get the sleepyheads.

Wake 'em up.

There is no American who is comfortable with censorship of this kind.

[crewman6]

Next Trump will order all old copies of NYT and WP to be burned on the White House lawn.

[jslinderml]

If I were Bezos, I would immediately offer free subscriptions to all government offices to negate the cost savings argument and see what happens (the cost would be minimal and actually possibly increase circulation numbers for ad rates)

[lanabill]

Once again we must crack open our “What if Obama had done this” notebooks.

[teddythecat]

Former federal employee here: If you have a *.gov or *.mil email or access the Washington Post from a *.gov or *.mil computer, there is no pay firewall on the Post. You can read it all you want. I doubt anyone who is currently in the White House is bright enough to know this.

[zlj2011]

This is a good example of something that is relatively inconsequential, symbolic nonsense that’s meant to distract.

Let’s keep our eye on the prize.

[docd]

Increasingly pathetic man who had to cheat his way into office is afraid that people will realize what a loser he is.

[bwillator]

@emiliano4

There is no American who is comfortable with censorship of this kind.

It isn’t censorship, and I think we’ll find that plenty of Americans will have no problem with it. Unfortunately.

[zlj2011]

Hahaha. That’s hilarious…as I said a moment ago, symbolic nonsense distractions.

[bwillator]

@teddythecat

Former federal employee here: If you have a *.gov or *.mil email or access the Washington Post from a *.gov or *.mil computer, there is no pay firewall on the Post. You can read it all you want. I doubt anyone who is currently in the White House is bright enough to know this.

Good to know. Thanks!

[steviedee111]

@teddythecat

Former federal employee here

Cool. What is your Deep State handle?

[sparrowhawk]

@zlj2011

Do you really think Bezos gives a shit about the money? It’s only in the last two years or so that he actually focused on profits at amazon. Really.

It was a strategy. They purposefully reinvested the profits of the company into acquisition and development, so that they wouldn’t have to report high corporate profits on their tax forms.

@steviedee111

It’s called parental controls.

He’s going to insist that they can’t “pay” for CNN or MSNBC and parental controls wouldn’t achieve that (though he may not realize that, I suppose).