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200,000 subscribers desert 'Washington Post' after Bezos blocks Harris endorsement (www.npr.org)
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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.

A corporate spokesperson declined to comment, citing The Washington Post Co.'s status as a privately held company.

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[–] JRepin@lemmy.ml 34 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

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

[–] vovo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 28 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] knightly@pawb.social 33 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Cancel both.

[–] bizarroland@fedia.io 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

It's not like the Washington Post is going to stop just because people cancel it.

Might as well pluck two leeches when you're plucking one anyway

[–] Powderhorn@beehaw.org 4 points 2 weeks ago

That's an abjectly inept understanding of how newsrooms work. You don't have subscribers, you fold, and not in that sense.

[–] Megaman_EXE@beehaw.org 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

I wonder what the good alternatives for people would be (aside from shopping local. Sometimes, you just can't, depending on what you're trying to find.)

Are there any other big stores(owners of said stores) that have endorsed Harris/spoken out against fascist and authoritarian behavior?

The reason I ask is because I feel like in our current systems, it's impossible not to support shitty groups or people. The money funnels up to the top

[–] averyminya@beehaw.org 6 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

What are some of the things you can't find outside of Amazon?

For me, I've noticed that a lot of items just seem to be resellers from Alibaba or wherever else to get vast quantities for low prices. Amazon even has it set up so that sellers can just ship from the source, so the reseller has nothing but the listing.

Other more niche items can exist, but I think they could be found. Recently I was looking at stuff for record players, and there's a fair amount f ones on amazon that don't seem available elsewhere, but I think it just requires searching a bit harder for longer.

[–] Megaman_EXE@beehaw.org 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I think you can definitely find duplicate ptoducts outside of amazon. In some rare cases, I've seen very specific products where the company specifically only sells on Amazon, but that's of course, rare.

But what I meant is that all the options are these massive companies like Wal-Mart that definitely don't have the general populations' best interests in mind.

[–] Vodulas@beehaw.org 3 points 2 weeks ago

I think this is pretty niche, but 3d printer filament. Some companies sell directly (MatterHackers, ProtoPasta, etc) but the variety isn't as good. There are just things some manufacturers that only are available in my area via Amazon