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Not sure how I feel about this. On the one hand, Amazon probably has too long of fingers. On the other hand, if we (the US) are going to be bad at enforcing ant
by debacle 9y ago
Not sure how I feel about this. On the one hand, Amazon probably has too long of fingers. On the other hand, if we (the US) are going to be bad at enforcing anti-trust laws, we should at least be consistent about it.
- skinnymuch 9y agoThat's how I feel too. I dislike Amazon's power and potential future power quite a bit. But the US at least isn't consistent with how it's going about things. Speaking of which, I haven't heard much about the At&t and Time Warner merger in some time. Campaign Trump did say he wouldn't allow it :p
- bobthechef 9y agoFrankly, Amazon is in a league of its own. Amazon has been allowed to acquire and expand until now, far exceeding whoever you have in mind. So I don't think there's an inconsistency. I could expect inconsistencies, however, for two reasons. First, lobbying. Second, because the corporate entity is important to national interests in some way where breaking it up would detract from those interests. I don't think any of these apply in the case of AMZN. So if we're going for consistency, we should have really gone after AMZN quite some time ago.
- skinnymuch 9y agoActually yeah I agree. What would they have gone after Amazon for before? Not for acquisitions, right? Unless Zappos or Goodreads were too far. Or some AWS acqsitions. The first thing I can think of is the BS they pulled when going against Quidsi. Lowering prices for things like diapers far too low among other things. Then being able to buy Quidsi when they were weakened.