Re:FTC Sues Amazon for Illegally Maintaining Monopoly Power
by dvngnt_ on Tuesday September 26, 2023 @01:11PM
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a competitor that owns and governs the platform you have to use is different from another 3rd party that you have to compete with
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Re:FTC Sues Amazon for Illegally Maintaining Monopoly Power
by lvl102 on Tuesday September 26, 2023 @01:46PM
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You don’t have to use them. That’s the point of my argument. No one’s stopping you from selling it using Shopify where you can set up an e-commerce store within a couple of hours.
Re:FTC Sues Amazon for Illegally Maintaining Monopoly Power
by binarymax on Tuesday September 26, 2023 @01:52PM
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The whole point of the case is to show that they control a monopoly. When there's a monopoly, you can't go anywhere else!
Re:FTC Sues Amazon for Illegally Maintaining Monopoly Power
by lvl102 on Tuesday September 26, 2023 @02:17PM
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And my point, as someone who’s worked in antitrust field for over a decade, is that Amazon is a company that does the least to exert monopoly power out of all the big tech companies. In fact, they do so little that I think they are being stupid.
Re:FTC Sues Amazon for Illegally Maintaining Monopoly Power
by ameister14 on Tuesday September 26, 2023 @09:57PM
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That's not a really good point.
"They're bad, but they aren't as bad as those other guys. In fact, I think they are stupid for not being worse."