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What? Am I insane? Why don't Google take legal action? What it's doing now is completely barbaric. And Google supports Net Neutrality too. Isn't what it is doi
by nialv7 9y ago
What? Am I insane? Why don't Google take legal action? What it's doing now is completely barbaric.
And Google supports Net Neutrality too. Isn't what it is doing exactly opposite to the spirit of Net Neutrality?
Just because your opponent did something bad, doesn't mean it's ok to sink to their level.
- icebraining 9y agoYou can't take legal action against a store for its refusal to sell your products...
- rkangel 9y agoI'm not a lawyer, but I'm pretty sure you can if you can prove to the court that the behaviour is anti-competitive. Amazon being so dominant in the web retail space makes that argument easier.
- 0xFFC 9y agoI am no expert, but maybe the have calculated the price and etc, and came to the conclusion of blocking Youtube on Amazon platform would be cheaper option for them than for example going to legal battle with Amazon. Isn’t this a possibility?
- nolemurs 9y agoI would wager that Amazon is pretty safe on this one. Some quick googling suggests that Amazon has less than 20% market share in consumer electronics. They're the biggest player, but there are lots of other big players (Walmart, Target, Best Buy). I'm pretty sure you need a lot more market share than that before any judge is going to rule your behavior as anti-competitive.
- talmand 9y agoThat's an interesting thought to compare such things to traditional brick-and-mortar situations. A store that dominates its market tends to cause competing stores to close. Which creates the problem in that customers get fewer choices in stores to buy products. This would create the possibility that a dominate store would take steps to cause the competition to shut down; such as price dumping or other unethical things. But that problem doesn't happen on the web. There's absolutely nothing Amazon could do to prevent Google from selling their product on their own site. I mean, price dumping could still be an issue but it seems no one considers that one anymore. So how can it be proven that Amazon is anti-competitive by refusing to sell a product on their site that competes directly with one of their products sold on their site? Especially when the competitor has no barrier created by Amazon to prevent them from selling the product on their own site? After all, to be fair, shouldn't I be able to purchase an Amazon product on Google's site?
- 2_listerine_pls 9y agoA monopoly
- fauigerzigerk 9y agoAmazon has a monopoly on electronics retail sales? I doubt that.
- iagooar 9y agoIsn't it trying to become one + behaving like one?
- 0xcde4c3db 9y agoI'm not a lawyer, but as far as I understand it antitrust law/regulators don't really make the distinction of whether a company has a full-blown monopoly. What primarily matters is whether they either exercise monopoly power (e.g. raise prices or reduce product/service value without commensurate loss of sales to competitors) or engage in anticompetitive practices intended to drive competitors out of the market (predatory pricing/dumping, tying products across different markets, exclusivity agreements, refusing to sell to a company in one market because they're a competitor in another market).
- fauigerzigerk 9y agoIn terms of pricing power for electronics I don't see it at this point. There are too many opportunities for shoppers to go elsewhere and everything gets arbitraged away via eBay extremely quickly. That said, I also think that regulators should keep a close eye on what's going on in online retail, particularly when it comes to specific sections of the market like books/publishing.
- rplnt 9y agoYou are assuming Google wasn't on that level for almost a decade.