FTC Sues Amazon for Illegally Maintaining Monopoly Power

Re:FTC Sues Amazon for Illegally Maintaining Monopoly Power by lvl102 on Tuesday September 26, 2023 @01:46PM (#37663045)

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.

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Re:FTC Sues Amazon for Illegally Maintaining Monopoly Power by binarymax on Tuesday September 26, 2023 @01:52PM (#37663150)

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!

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Re:FTC Sues Amazon for Illegally Maintaining Monopoly Power by lvl102 on Tuesday September 26, 2023 @02:17PM (#37663566)

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.

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Re:FTC Sues Amazon for Illegally Maintaining Monopoly Power by ameister14 on Tuesday September 26, 2023 @09:57PM (#37668829)

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."

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