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Re:Facebook is a monopoly that buys, copies, kills competito... by pwinnski on Friday October 09, 2020 @10:06AM (#24730012)
The US House committee that spent 18 months investigating cataloged an extensive report[0] on Amazon's predatory ways, and reading it one quickly realizes that not everyone feels warm and fuzzy toward the company as you do.

There's a lot.

The section on Amazon begins on page 248, and is very readable.

[0] https://judiciary.house.gov/uploadedfiles/competition_in_dig...

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Re:Facebook is a monopoly that buys, copies, kills competito... by s3r3nity on Friday October 09, 2020 @02:07PM (#24732658)
Just theater - no legislation.

Too many senators / congress people have Amazon warehouses with 1000's of jobs in their backyard, and would never support breaking them up on weak committee recommendations.

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Re:Facebook is a monopoly that buys, copies, kills competito... by pwinnski on Friday October 09, 2020 @04:05PM (#24733860)
This is step one. It is possible that step two will die on the floor, but this report made it out of committee, which is farther than I expected it to get, so I'm not quite so pessimistic about step two.

Right now one party wants to go after the big tech companies for what seem to be the wrong reasons, while the other party doesn't seem to have the will to go after them at all. But in the end, we got a report with good recommendations, so we'll see if bad motives can bring about some good results.

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