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I'm just guessing, but it seems like the point of that part is to keep big tech companies from being able to effectively kill off competition by also owning the
by hn8788 6y ago
I'm just guessing, but it seems like the point of that part is to keep big tech companies from being able to effectively kill off competition by also owning the platforms that competitors would build on.
- kokanator 6y agoThis seems like the best translation. If you control your competitors infrastructure, you have a unique power position and the ability to shut off hosting at any moment. Sure the tenant could fight in court but by that time their business is dead.
- cle 6y agoThis is also from Hawley's website: > Example: Amazon cannot continue to operate an overwhelmingly dominant retail business and simultaneously own an enormous share of the cloud computing technology upon which the internet itself is built. Is there any evidence that Amazon actually leverages this? Or is able to leverage it?
- nitrogen 6y agoSee: January 2021
- kmeisthax 6y agohttps://www.cnet.com/news/amazon-reportedly-used-data-from-sellers-to-develop-competing-products/ https://www.cnet.com/news/amazon-reportedly-used-data-from-s... Amazon regularly accesses their own platform's sales data to determine how to make competing products. I would not be surprised if this was the game everywhere else, though. Remember: physical retail invented a lot of the scummy business tactics we complain about with Amazon.
- cle 6y agoFrom what I can tell, that had nothing to do with AWS.