Re:Amazon’s New Competitive Advantage: Putting Its Own Produ...
by macspoofing on Monday June 08, 2020 @05:30PM
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You must be correct. They are a trillion-dollar company and they can certainly afford lobbyists and lawyers and accountants and consultants to tell them where the regulatory limits are.
And yet, I cannot see how regulators will just let them take over consumer goods given their size and clout, and the fact that they are using data from their users to drive their business decisions on which products to launch and compete with those same users. I just cannot see them not getting into major regulatory trouble for that.
If you were cynical, you could say they’re pushing the bounds because they know they’ll get whacked for something eventually, even if just for owning a huge chunk of e-commerce (already the case). And if they are going to, why don’t they choose what that’ll be, and the thing that makes them hardly any money? I’m sure they’d be happy to pay basically nothing (what, use their lawyers already on retainer and wind-down contracting of white-label crap? — and maybe pay damages, which seems unlikely they’d let it go that far).