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The big one is Amazon. The revenue from AWS funds the ability for them to crush the high street on the shopping side. They should be forced to sell off AWS as a
by quattrofan 6y ago
The big one is Amazon. The revenue from AWS funds the ability for them to crush the high street on the shopping side. They should be forced to sell off AWS as a separate company.
- wolco 6y agoAgreed. Facebook brekup doesn't make sense nor a google. Amazon has two different businesses.
- burmer 6y agoAt least split off instagram. You're not supposed to simply buy up your competitors.
- chrischattin 6y agoThis is all beneficial for the consumer, no? Having a competitive advantage is not illegal. Someone correct me, but isn't the law's intent to protect people from abuse of monopolistic power? Which wouldn't be the case here.
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- bcrosby95 6y agoThe laws intent is debated. Some think it is there to protect consumers. Others to protect free enterprise and eliminate the ability to manipulate a marketplace - pro consumer or not. Lately, the outlook of protecting consumers has won out in the US, as that is what the Supremes laid out as a determining factor in the later half of the 20th century. But it wasn't always that way. And the laws aren't written that way. In my opinion, focusing on consumer benefit is a red herring. We are all both consumers and producers. An economy full of companies shutting out competition through market manipulation may be good when I'm trying to buy something, but it's bad when I'm trying to find work, because they can dictate whatever terms they desire in that half of my participation in the economy.