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The issue is lying to Congress about it when asked.

• munk-a 6y ago
  Amazon does need to be broken up anyways though - remember when the feds went after microsoft aggressively and they weren't nearly at the scale Amazon is in terms of being a business requirement. We need to get another Teddy in sometime to really go whole-hog on corporate breakups and undo a lot of really questionable mergers that have been approved.
  • justicezyx 6y ago
    > remember when the feds went after microsoft aggressively and they weren't nearly at the scale Amazon is in terms of being a business requirement. Wasn't windows effectively is a must for any PC? Like 90% of market. They literally killed Netscape by just preinstall a browser. Similarly pushed its own Office suite to be the lesser dominant player. It sounds like they are more dominant than Amazon in the business IT or personal computing market.
  • ericd 6y ago
    Amazon is not nearly at the same level of ecommerce dominance, let alone retail dominance, that Microsoft was in dominance in computing in the time period you're talking about.
    • wpietri 6y ago
      That doesn't mean they aren't big enough to cause substantial harm.
      • ericd 6y ago
        Maybe. I was responding to "remember when the feds went after microsoft aggressively and they weren't nearly at the scale Amazon is in terms of being a business requirement." If they're referring to AWS rather than ecommerce, that's also nowhere near being true. I think it's easy to forget how absolutely dominant Windows was.