Mega-billionaire Jeff Bezos owns so much stuff that his investments are effectively going to war with one another. Earlier this week, Bezoss e-commerce company (Amazon) launched a lawsuit against a state government to retaliate against The Washington Post, which Bezos also owns. The lawsuit, filed by Amazon against Washingtons Department of Labor and Industries, asks the government not to comply with a public records request from the Post concerning a recent probe into 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 would appear that state regulators have been looking into activities at Kuipers warehouse, which is based in Redmond, Washington. The litigation reveals that the Washington Post has been seeking to gain information about a series of visits made by labor regulators to the facility. Those visits took place between August and October, the lawsuit states, though its unclear what the visits were about. Amazon claims that it is not trying to censor the reporting of the newspaper owned by its founder. Instead, it says it is trying to prevent the disclosure of trade secrets that would critically harm its business if published. Amazon does not seek to prevent disclosure of all of the requested records, the suit says. Rather, Amazon seeks to protect a subset of records that contain trade secrets, as defined by law. The release of this proprietary information would irreparably harm Amazon in such a way that monetary damages would be inadequate to make Amazon whole. The litigation also illustrates the way in which the Washington state government and Amazon have effectively collaborated on media records requests previously. GeekWire notes that Amazon has done this sort of thing before and that, at this point, it could be considered more of a legal technicality than anything. According to the litigation, the government has previously sent Amazon copies of public records requests for the company to review, so that it can identify sensitive proprietary information that should not be revealed. That information can subsequently be blocked from disclosure through a court process.Gizmodo reached out to Amazon and the Washington state government for comment. Amazon has frequently run afoul of labor regulationsboth regionally and nationally. The company has suffered through a number of tussles with Washington state regulators over labor violations in the past. On the federal level, meanwhile, it has perpetually found itself at odds with the nations labor agencies. In November, Amazon joined its business partner SpaceX and other corporate partners to launch a legal war on the National Labor Review Board, claiming that the agency (which is chiefly responsible for protecting Americas workers from corporate predation) was unconstitutional.