You bring this up presumably because of the tech company angle, to suggest that Bezos buying WaPo is somehow in the same ballpark of influence-purchasing that U

You bring this up presumably because of the tech company angle, to suggest that Bezos buying WaPo is somehow in the same ballpark of influence-purchasing that Uber and Google are caught up in here? That seems to be a slightly disingenuous comparison. For one, Bezos seems to be taking a pretty light touch on Washington Post editorial content, which probably makes sense for him as an owner, since it's probably worth more as a business if it has a solid editorial reputation. For two, if you're looking to cast aspersions on the editorial influence of owners, you'd maybe want to take a look at who owns the Evening Standard, since that's the paper whose coverage has apparently been put up for sale. It's Alexander Lebedev, billionaire Russian financial/aviation 'oligarch', who was literally a KGB spy in London in the cold war. But sure, I bet you're right to be concerned about the sinister motivations of a bookseller now he owns a newspaper.