Re:Parler social network sues Amazon for pulling support
by starfallg on Tuesday January 12, 2021 @10:43AM
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That's antitrust or competition law. However, no matter how you slice it, court would be unlikely to rule AWS as a monopoly given its market share in cloud hosting and even if you focus in on specific services, AWS market share is small by antitrust standards.
Amazon (the webstore) on the other hand is getting close, and with the core business of the other FAANGs.
Re:Parler social network sues Amazon for pulling support
by inglor_cz on Tuesday January 12, 2021 @11:19AM
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Antitrust laws can be also broken by collusion. If, for example, AWS, Azure and Google can be demonstrated to act as a cartel (IDK if this is true, but if...), then they violate antitrust law, because in combination, they dominate the market.
It is always good to recall history. The origin of antitrust laws lies in the late 19th century, when a lot of railroad companies consolidated into a few mammoths. Back then, there were basically no regulations around the use of railroads, which were built by private capital.
Nevertheless, railroads became an important infrastructure of the nation, and the convergence of power towards just a few hands meant that the situation became untenable.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Securities_Co._v._Uni...
I can see the parallels to the digital giants of today fairly well.