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Mega-billionaire Jeff Bezos has so many things that his investments effectively move to war. At the beginning of this week, Bezos’ E-Commerce Company (Amazon) started a lawsuit against a state government to take revenge against the Washington Post, which also has Bezos.
The lawsuit, Submitted by Amazon against Washington’s Ministry of Labor and Industry, the government asks to comply with an application for public records from the position in relation to a recent examination in one of its facilities. Project Kuiper is a private satellite network operated by Amazon that the e-commerce giant uses to sell broadband services to a variety of customers. Unfortunately, it seems that the state supervisory authorities examined the activities in Kuiper’s Warehouse in Redmond, Washington.
The legal dispute shows that Washington Post has tried to receive information about a series of visits made by Labor supervisory authorities in the facility. This visits took place between August and October, the lawsuit, although it is unclear what the visits were.
Amazon claims that it does not try to censor the reporting of the founder’s newspaper. Instead, attempts are made to prevent the disclosure of business secrets that would be critical of their business if they are published. “Amazon does not try to prevent the disclosure of all requested records,” the lawsuit says. “Rather, Amazon tries to protect a subgroup of records that contain business secrets,” as defined by law. “The publication of this proprietary information would harm Amazon so irreparably that monetary damage is not sufficient to make Amazon completely.”
The legal dispute also shows the way in which the government of the US state of Washington and Amazon have previously effectively worked together on inquiries from media documents. Geekwire the festival Amazon has already done something like that and that at that time it could be seen as “legal technical” than anything but a “legal technical” than anything else. According to the legal dispute, the government previously sent Amazon copies of public records for the company for checking so that they can identify sensitive proprietary information that should not be uncovered. This information can then be blocked by the disclosure by a court proceedings.
Gizmodo turned to Amazon and the government of the US state of Washington for a comment.
Amazon is often due to work regulations – both regionally and nationally. The company suffered A number of disputes with the regulatory authorities of the state of Washington for work injuries in the past. At the federal level, it is now constantly was in contradiction With the nation’s employment agencies. In November Amazon joined his business partner SpaceX and other company partners Start a legal war In the National Labor Review Board it was claimed that the agency (which is mainly responsible for the protection of American workers from corporate forecasts) “unconstitutional”.
