The FTC Sues to Break Up Amazon over an Economy-Wide “Hidden Tax”

Re:The FTC Sues to Break Up Amazon over an Economy-Wide “Hid... by EGreg on Wednesday October 04, 2023 @01:58PM (#37769105)

When FB was founded there were:

  MySpace

  Friendster

  Whimit - Russians online (LOL)

and many other small examples. There was still AOL, MSN, etc. There was a time when they ruled.

The only reason that FB, Google and yes Amazon were even able to launch, is because the open permissionless web disrupted AOL, MSN etc. Imagine them allowing Amazon to launch on top of them. They’d cannibalize them just like Amazon cannibalizes sellers.

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Re:The FTC Sues to Break Up Amazon over an Economy-Wide “Hid... by oblio on Wednesday October 04, 2023 @04:47PM (#37771519)

All of those had 10% of Facebook's current users, at best, and probably 1% of their spare cash.

Scale matters. You seem to be a programmer, you should know that.

Quantity has a quality all its own.

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