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Re:Amazon Is Accused of Forcing Up Prices in Antitrust Compl... by zamfi on Friday November 08, 2019 @04:59PM (#21487292)
> The only scenario in which the size of a company has a bearing on which laws apply to them is if the business is a monopoly.

I'm sorry but this is not true. There are tons of labor laws, just to give one example, that depend on how many employees a company has.

Re:Amazon Is Accused of Forcing Up Prices in Antitrust Compl... by toasterlovin on Friday November 08, 2019 @08:50PM (#21488989)
Aren't the labor laws discriminating at a scale that is several orders of magnitude smaller than Amazon, though? The implied context in the GP is that they're talking about Amazon's size as opposed to, say, Target or Walmart.
Re:Amazon Is Accused of Forcing Up Prices in Antitrust Compl... by zamfi on Saturday November 09, 2019 @07:02AM (#21491017)
Sure, but I was using labor laws as an example to show that there exists precedent to discriminate based on company size.

Further, GP also claims that “being a monopoly” is the only scenario in which size matters, but monopoly power is not about overall company size — it’s about market dominance. You can be a (relatively) small company and still exert complete dominance in a market, and engage in anti-competitive behavior that will attract regulatory scrutiny.