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Re:FTC Sues Amazon for Illegally Maintaining Monopoly Power by danielmarkbruce on Tuesday September 26, 2023 @09:16PM (#37668433)
And it's still wrong. Amazon does 100s of billions of 1st party sales. As does Costco, Walmart, Target, and probably a dozen other stores I'm not aware of. It scales, big time. Choosing products to sell when you have a giant distribution engine is one of the most scaleable things in business.

If you want to trot out the principle of charity, it goes both ways. You assumed people were nitpicking. It was wrong. Every way you want to spin it by changing words, wrong.

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Re:FTC Sues Amazon for Illegally Maintaining Monopoly Power by 22289d on Tuesday September 26, 2023 @09:26PM (#37668533)
> Amazon does 100s of billions of 1st party sales.

And the remainder is not scalable. All of that done by their sellers. As evidenced by the fact that they are not doing it themselves.

I'm beginning to think this thread is being astroturphed. All of you are employing an identical strategy of latching onto minor issues with how things are phrased. A standard PR tactic. And Amazon has a long documented history of astroturphing.

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Re:FTC Sues Amazon for Illegally Maintaining Monopoly Power by danielmarkbruce on Tuesday September 26, 2023 @09:43PM (#37668706)
Yes. Anyone who disagrees must be engaged in nitpicking, PR tactics, and astroturfing. This all seems very rational. Lina, is that you?
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Re:FTC Sues Amazon for Illegally Maintaining Monopoly Power by ToucanLoucan on Tuesday September 26, 2023 @10:34PM (#37669188)
Do you know when the astroturfing checks come in by the way? Also is that W-4 income or am I contractor?
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Re:FTC Sues Amazon for Illegally Maintaining Monopoly Power by danielmarkbruce on Wednesday September 27, 2023 @12:19AM (#37670054)
You are human? You must be amazon's first gen astroturfing infra, mechanical turk style. I'm part of amazon's skunkworks Astroturf-LLM service. Automated, at scale astroturfing. I believe we will make it public facing via AWS soon.
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Re:FTC Sues Amazon for Illegally Maintaining Monopoly Power by ToucanLoucan on Wednesday September 27, 2023 @10:44AM (#37675387)
Fucking AI taking our jobs
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