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Re:Amazon still hasn’t fixed its problem with bait-and-switc... by ryanyde on Wednesday December 30, 2020 @12:27PM (#25583632)
Journalists have never operated an ecommerce company.

In the same year, they'll publish a story about how requiring manufacturing information enables them to steal secrets from sellers.

You can't have it both ways.

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Re:Amazon still hasn’t fixed its problem with bait-and-switc... by sathackr on Wednesday December 30, 2020 @12:31PM (#25583688)
If Amazon wasn't directly competing against their sellers, and doing exactly what you said, while lying to Congress about it [1], then maybe journalists wouldn't be writing about Amazon stealing secrets from sellers.

1. https://www.wsj.com/articles/amazon-scooped-up-data-from-its...

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Re:Amazon still hasn’t fixed its problem with bait-and-switc... by r00fus on Wednesday December 30, 2020 @12:57PM (#25584032)
> You can't have it both ways.

Clearly you have to be a megacorp to get it both ways. Amazon shouldn't be able to evade liability for products sold on their website if they compete against their "sellers" as well.

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