{"id":11704,"date":"2019-02-09T13:23:14","date_gmt":"2019-02-09T17:23:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/?p=11704"},"modified":"2019-02-09T13:24:22","modified_gmt":"2019-02-09T17:24:22","slug":"jeff-bezos-protests-the-invasion-of-his-privacy-as-amazon-builds-a-sprawling-surveillance-state-for-everyone-else","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/jeff-bezos-protests-the-invasion-of-his-privacy-as-amazon-builds-a-sprawling-surveillance-state-for-everyone-else\/","title":{"rendered":"Jeff Bezos Protests the Invasion of His Privacy, as Amazon Builds a Sprawling Surveillance State for Everyone Else"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The Intercept<\/strong>, by Glenn Greenwald, February 8, 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The National Enquirer has engaged in behavior so lowly and unscrupulous that it created a seemingly impossible storyline:\u00a0the world\u2019s richest billionaire and a <\/em>notorious labor abuser<\/em><\/a>, Amazon CEO\u00a0Jeff Bezos, as a sympathetic victim.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Thursday, Bezos <\/em>published emails<\/em><\/a> in which the Enquirer\u2019s parent company explicitly threatened to publish intimate photographs of Bezos and his mistress, which were\u00a0apparently exchanged between the two through their iPhones, unless Bezos agreed to a series of demands involving silence about the company\u2019s conduct.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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All of this raises serious questions, which thus far are limited to pure speculation, about how the National Enquirer obtained the intimate photos exchanged between Bezos and his mistress. Despite a lack of evidence, MSNBC is <\/em>already doing what it exists to do<\/em><\/a> \u2013 implying with no evidence that Trump is to blame (in this case, by abusing the powers of the NSA or FBI to spy on Bezos). But, under the circumstances, those are legitimate questions to be\u00a0probing (though responsible news agencies would wait for evidence before airing\u00a0innuendo\u00a0of that sort).<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

If\u00a0the surveillance powers of the NSA, FBI or other agencies were used to obtain incriminating information about Bezos due to their view of him as a political enemy \u2013 and, again, there is no evidence this has happened \u2013 it certainly would not be the first time. Those agencies have a long and shameful history of doing exactly that, which is why the\u00a0<\/em>Democratic adoration for those agencies<\/em><\/a>, and the <\/em>recent bipartisan further empowerment of them<\/em><\/a>, was so disturbing.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Intercept, by Glenn Greenwald, February 8, 2019 Excerpts: The National Enquirer has engaged in behavior so lowly and unscrupulous that it created a seemingly impossible storyline:\u00a0the world\u2019s richest billionaire and a notorious labor abuser, Amazon CEO\u00a0Jeff Bezos, as a … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t