I got hammered making this point re: Apple and the Dutch case about their payment system, but I suppose I'll make it again. The whole premis here seems naive.

I got hammered making this point re: Apple and the Dutch case about their payment system, but I suppose I'll make it again. The whole premis here seems naive. Of course Amazon is anticompetitive within their own ecosystem. If course it's not a free market, its a market with a proprietor. The analogy I made was to ice cream parlours in Disneyland. Any competition that exists, exists there at Disney's pleasure. They could standardize prices, ban ice cream, convert everything to franchises, force them to buy Disney insurance, etc. They own that market. I think every Amazon seller knows that Amazon creams the market, uses them for free market research and validation, and such. I'm not saying this is good, but "red handed" seems like a very naive frame. If Amazon marketplace needs to be a competitive market, that's a question of structure, not policy. Nitpicking Amazon's policies and catching them on noncompliance may work for a lawyer making a case, but that road does not lead to a competitive market.