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Re:Amazon met with startups about investing, then launched c... by jrumbut on Thursday July 23, 2020 @03:48PM (#23931499)
One can violate antitrust laws without being a monopoly. Certain parts of the law (regarding collusion on price setting, for example) can be broken by very small businesses.

See this helpful FTC page: https://www.ftc.gov/tips-advice/competition-guidance/guide-a...

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Re:Amazon met with startups about investing, then launched c... by philwelch on Thursday July 23, 2020 @07:41PM (#23934038)
This is true, but those are all cases in which putative competitors collude to essentially form a cartel. Which is a distinct category of antitrust offenses from anti-competitive behavior.
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