If you interfere with your business in a way that upsets staff and customers, you risk their ire—no matter the reasons for your decisions.

Current and former Washington Post staffers are rebelling against Jeff Bezos after he announced a “significant” editorial shift that will see the paper’s Opinion section focus almost exclusively on personal liberties and free markets.

The Washington Post spiked a column by its media critic about Jeff Bezos’ decision to reshape the newspaper’s Editorial pages, which led to the resignation of the section’s editor, according to a report.