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Re:Robinhood Play Store listing went from 329K reviews to 18... by centimeter on Thursday January 28, 2021 @07:22PM (#25951675)
It's more complicated than that. Jeff Bezos has a lot of money and relatively little political power. You can't just be rich; you also have to be in the right social groups.

If money truly equaled political power, we'd look more like Hong Kong pre-1997 (and arguably pre-2020).

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Re:Robinhood Play Store listing went from 329K reviews to 18... by teruakohatu on Thursday January 28, 2021 @07:22PM (#25951689)
> relatively little political power

He bought a newspaper. I would say he has plenty of political power.

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Re:Robinhood Play Store listing went from 329K reviews to 18... by pueblito on Thursday January 28, 2021 @07:28PM (#25951771)
To add to this, he owns the Washington Post, THE paper for DC
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Re:Robinhood Play Store listing went from 329K reviews to 18... by benrbray on Thursday January 28, 2021 @07:40PM (#25951918)
TIL it's Washington DC. I assumed it was Washington state, due to Amazon's presence there.
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Re:Robinhood Play Store listing went from 329K reviews to 18... by DevKoala on Thursday January 28, 2021 @07:46PM (#25951973)
You are not alone.
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Re:Robinhood Play Store listing went from 329K reviews to 18... by alistairSH on Thursday January 28, 2021 @08:04PM (#25952135)
He also had cities across the country doing cartwheels to get HQ2. He got an entire neighborhood in Arlington VA renamed, got a heliport approved, and other perks.
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Re:Robinhood Play Store listing went from 329K reviews to 18... by centimeter on Thursday January 28, 2021 @08:05PM (#25952148)
Being able to advertise to the proles isn’t actually that valuable without a level of coordination that’s beyond bezos.
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Re:Robinhood Play Store listing went from 329K reviews to 18... by TheRealDunkirk on Thursday January 28, 2021 @08:01PM (#25952106)
If you're worth a hundred billion dollars, your Senators will be calling YOU for lunch, no matter who your friends are.
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Re:Robinhood Play Store listing went from 329K reviews to 18... by f430 on Friday January 29, 2021 @11:59AM (#25959482)
can we please ban centimeter please? this guy is an actual racist

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25954606

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