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Re:Can Anyone Beat Jeff Bezos? by jdale27 on Monday October 02, 2017 @09:08PM (#15389278)
The current legislative environment is entirely ill-equipped to deal with these companies, and moreover, no one even knows how to deal with them.

The former may be true; not sure about the latter. Existing anti-trust law could be sufficient to deal with them, if the powers that be had the will to use it.

Re:Can Anyone Beat Jeff Bezos? by mulmen on Monday October 02, 2017 @10:23PM (#15389649)
I think there is a challenge in applying current anti-trust laws to a company like Amazon because Amazon's reach is more wide than it is deep. AT&T owned almost the entire telecom network in the United States, Amazon doesn't have anywhere near that kind of influence in any of it's businesses. What Amazon does have is a significant presence in many different (competitive) businesses. I can't think of an example of antitrust being applied in a similar situation in the past but I could be missing something obvious.