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Of course, it's not cool that Amazon can terminate anyone's account as they please. But I suppose it's their right. The real problem is Amazon having monopoly.
by DeathArrow 3y ago
Of course, it's not cool that Amazon can terminate anyone's account as they please. But I suppose it's their right.
The real problem is Amazon having monopoly. If there were some true competition, I couldn't care less about Amazon closing my account as I could go to a competitor.
- andsoitis 3y ago> The real problem is Amazon having monopoly. What does Amazon have a monopoly on?
- DeathArrow 3y agoOnline retailing.
- jjgreen 3y agoAccording to this page, Amazon holds a dominant market share of 60-70% in book sales https://blog.gitnux.com/amazon-book-sales-statistics/ https://blog.gitnux.com/amazon-book-sales-statistics/
- mcherm 3y ago> What does Amazon have a monopoly on? Audiobooks. https://doctorow.medium.com/why-none-of-my-books-are-available-on-audible-83cb182f2f91 https://doctorow.medium.com/why-none-of-my-books-are-availab...
- cubefox 3y agoThey have an extremely market dominating position in retail, similar to Google for search.
- cpcallen 3y agoMy impression from the video is that Rossman is actually completely fine with Amazon cancelling his account—he just doesn't like the (in his view disingenuous) email they sent him claiming to to have cancelled it because of TOS violations, rather than saying that they've cancelled because they don't like his video about them.
- onetrickwolf 3y agoI don't know if Amazon should have the right to terminate anyone's account to be honest. I feel like people are afraid to regulate anything these days but I mean some people's entire lives are dependent on these corporate accounts. You can't just have me build up a livelihood on Amazon or have my whole house running on Amazon smart products and then just terminate the account. If there was more competition or these things were based on open standards you could easily switch over I might be more inclined to agree, but I think right now these companies have way way too much power. The threat of a company deleting an account for many people would be detrimental to their lives. We are way way too dependent on corporations and in kind of tired of people being scared to regulate.
- brightlancer 3y agoIf Amazon and Google and other Big Companies were prevented from deleting accounts, what else would happen? How would the Big Companies game the system? Would that harm smaller companies (as regulation usually does)? Would we even see the benefits that were promised? Regulation often makes things worse, so we can't just look at the potential benefits without considering the potential (and likely) negative consequences. That doesn't mean folks are scared of regulation. It means they're _smart_ about it.
- onetrickwolf 3y agoI used to agree with you but it's getting out of hand these companies have more control than most states and governments over our communication, privacy, money, and general lives but we don't get to vote in who is running them. I'd rather start shooting and ask questions later before we get consumed by these behemoths. We need another Teddy Roosevelt and another antitrust sweep up in my opinion.
- amelius 3y agoThis only works if there is _zero_ vendor lock in. If you're dependent on Amazon for e.g. your e-reader files, AWS account, or even your wishlist and taking your data elsewhere is a pain, then your argument doesn't hold. They can't have it both ways.