WELCOME

In his letter to Steyer, Mr. Bezos writes that he

July 24, 2017 by Kenneth Newton

In his letter to Steyer, Mr. Bezos writes that he "must now make the difficult decision that it is time to turn off the Internet at this point."

The Enquirer's revelations seem to show that Bezos has the power over the media in the US. It has been argued that Mr. Bezos' political activities may have been motivated by a desire to avoid the media's exposure of the company's questionable dealings with the world's largest oil company. In the wake of Mr. Bezos' resignation, a recent Forbes piece argued that Mr. Bezos was not a "natural candidate for [the chair], but rather he did what is necessary to win."

On Wednesday afternoon, after Mr. Bezos filed the lawsuit, Steyer sent a letter to Steyer urging him to stop publishing the story. The letter, which has not yet been reproduced, is available here.

Mr. Bezos, who is not the first person to make this sort of public threat, has been a longtime critic of journalists and has been charged with defamation for allegedly leaking stories about the Enquirer.

Mr. Steyer is not alone. In 2013, The New York Times published a story claiming that the journalist Laura Poitras had exposed how the New York Times had been secretly spending millions to pay for political operatives in the Obama White House. The story was republished by The Daily Beast, who said the "truly unprecedented level of scrutiny" would be "unacceptable for any person whose job involves reporting on political power in the United States."

The New York Times has, meanwhile, been at the center of a legal battle with Mr. Bezos over a series of stories calling him a 'political nepotism' who "wants to kill journalists." Mr. Bezos has previously been a supporter of the First Amendment to the US Constitution, and has defended the Freedom of the Press Association's (AFP) Freedom of the Press Act, which would outlaw political speech based on "hate speech."A new study reports that the average American household spends less than $1,000 a year on energy, yet the average household is still paying more than $16,500 to power their homes.