Jeff Bezos, an Amazon’s CEO and the world’s third richest man, who bought the third largest newspaper in the US, Washington Post in 2013, announced restrictions on the policy of the newspaper’s opinion section. Rai’s editor David Shipli left his job after knowing about the changes. What are the new restrictions, and why do many crypto affect changes?
On February 26, 2025, in the X post, Bezos shared the note that he had sent the employees of the Washington Post that day. In the note, Bezos announced that the post is going to write in “support and defense” of two columns: personal freedom and free market. Unlike these columns, not all the items will be placed in the Washington Post.
According to Bezos, freedom is moral and practical because it reduces force and runs invention and prosperity. They believe that other approaches are already well represented on the Internet, so changing the policies of the post seems right for them. The note also shows that Opinion Editor, David Shiple refused to lead the new direction and left his post.
Washington Post Shakeup
Over the years, the Opinion segment of the Washington Post has been a tribune for different people, if not polar, then the idea. From now on, it will change. the new York Times Citation The CEO of the Memo of Washington Post, Will Lewis sent the employees that the step is “not about siding with any political party” but “about being clear about what we stand as a newspaper.”
According to NYT, Shiple stepped down after a week of conversation between her, Bezos and Lewis. Shipli rejected the change and decided to step down. Allegedly, Opinion Board members were “shocked and shocked” from news.
However, Shipli’s resignation is in line with the latest events in the Washington Post. Pulitzer Award winner Cartoonist N Telnas Resigned From the post in 2024, the newspaper criticized Jeff Bezos and refused to publish his work. The same year, for the first time in decades, the post did not support any presidential candidate. The decision to stay away from the election saw many journalists leaving the newspaper. In 2024, two authors write for the Washington Post Opinion segment get Pulitzer Prize.
Some consider the change of policy to be the right twist. It rings well with refusal to support the presidential candidate before the 2024 election. In this decision, Washington allegedly spent the cost of 8% of its subscribers. Three of the nine members of the editorial board resigned in protest. CNBC Citation One of the resigned editors, Molly Roberts, was going to support Kamla Harris, the editorial board Trump’s contestant, and Jeff Bezos decided not to support anyone. Newspaper publisher and CEO Lewis called these claims wrong.
Reacts large figures in Crypto
While the announcement was not received smoothly by the newspaper employees, it was received with enthusiasm by many excellent personalities in the Crypto industry who re -prepared the post of Bezos, commented with praise on it, and shared his views on the importance of support for free markets.
Brian Armstrong of Coinbase expressed his full support for the move and even shared him Article About free markets published in coinbase blogs.
Thron’s Justin Sun shared the post; Jeff Park of Bitwaiz Invest praised the move in the comment section, and Crypto author Nick Carter said in the comment section to offer his service as a columnist on crypto subjects, saying that he is ready to “heal coverage”.
Michael Sayler of the strategy did not touch policy changes, rather announced that bitcoin facilitates personal freedom and free markets, which expresses his support for the new direction of Washington Post.
Many people outside the Crypto community expressed dissatisfaction with the move, indicating incompatibility in promoting personal freedom, as well as pressing it together in the newspaper through banning some approaches in the newspaper which are nonpartison for longer than a century.
However, the praise of the Crypto community does not seem irrational if we see Bezos’s declaration as a vow to support the supporting administration. Trump’s second chairmanship has been marked by loosening the Crypto rules and giving the region unseen freedom.
In the first months of 2025, the state-level bitcoin reserve proposals began to pop up along with the federal level proposal offered by Republican Senator Synthia Lumis. The recent series of the case against the huge crypto platforms by the Government Crusage at SEC and Operation Chok Point 2.0 makes the Trump Administration 2.0 a superhero a superhero at the Trump Administration 2.0 in the eyes of the Crypto Business. These actions fuel the market and help shape the future of the Crypto region.
It is understood that the Crypto community is not equal, and some criticize Trump, convicted for the tariff policy, who allegedly ruined the BTC value or for the official Trump MEMTING launch. More than this, some do not like Trump’s personality and his political course. However, in 2025, this attitude is not the mainstream in the Crypto information area.
However, suppose we do not create a trump-Bezos connection. In that case, we can accept that the free market and financial empowerment of the person have always been columns of the Crypto community and ideology. Bitcoins and other cryptocurrency are crossing boundaries and ignoring restrictions, which gives people new opportunities, and so on.
If Bezos is saying that he is going to defend it, the Crypto community is here to support him. However, the attempt to silence the alternative approach on the pages of the Washington post does not necessarily follow Crypto censorship resistance.
Free Market and Technofedalism
In his article about free markets, Brian Armstrong expressed a strong fear, what Marxism called Marxism and praising the free market capitalism. However, some people see Jeff Bezos, not a capitalist, but a poster of technofidalism, a newborn system that is a capitalism parasite.
The term was coined by former Greece Finance Minister and Vipul writer Yanis Varofaqis. He compares modern technical giants with European medieval Lords and their corporations such as Apple or Amazon, which remains away from rent, while old -fashioned capitalist companies were inspired by profit. Now, “Jagirdar Capitalists” will have to pay “cloud rent” to technical veterans to present their products on Amazon, Google Play, and other platforms of “technoofidals”. concept The new and rather marginal, but it is attracting more and more attention these days.
Like Satoshi Nakamoto, Varofacis tells banks and bankers as a twist in the 2008 economic crisis. According to him, these people did not create anything new; He was guilty of Arabs in losses, but he had money anyway, thanks to the government who expelled him. He compares it to rent, money that does not come from creativity or competition, which runs capitalism and free markets.
Allegedly, Amazon is not creating anything new; It is feeding only the advertising space paid to the real capitalists, which run the economy. At least Jeff Bezos has nerve to bear the Washington Post Material Criticizing Amazon for your disappointing advertising-based search results. Test for FTC Antitrest Suit against Amazon is defined For 2026.
