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Re:Amazon Is Accused of Forcing Up Prices in Antitrust Compl... by toasterlovin on Friday November 08, 2019 @04:05PM (#21486746)
Both. Amazon is not a monopoly, therefore they aren't subject to any legal restrictions other than the same ones any retailer faces. And Amazon has no moral obligation to bend over backwards for third party sellers. Amazon created and nurtured the customer relationship. They should guard it fiercely.

This lawsuit is the equivalent of a consumer goods brand bitching and moaning because a supermarket imposes conditions on them if they want to get valuable shelf real estate.

Re:Amazon Is Accused of Forcing Up Prices in Antitrust Compl... by CPLX on Friday November 08, 2019 @05:01PM (#21487319)
This is a common misconception. Anti-competitive practices are generally outlawed, even for those that have not already acquired monopoly power.

Trying to acquire a monopoly via these practices is also not allowed.

Re:Amazon Is Accused of Forcing Up Prices in Antitrust Compl... by projektfu on Friday November 08, 2019 @06:59PM (#21488308)
An example in the article was Kodak. You couldn’t call them a monopoly in copiers. But they ran afoul of anticompetitive tying and lost their case.