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a competitor that owns and governs the platform you have to use is different from another 3rd party that you have to compete with

• lvl102 3y ago
  You don’t have to use them. That’s the point of my argument. No one’s stopping you from selling it using Shopify where you can set up an e-commerce store within a couple of hours.
  • binarymax 3y ago
    The whole point of the case is to show that they control a monopoly. When there's a monopoly, you can't go anywhere else!
    • lvl102 3y ago
      And my point, as someone who’s worked in antitrust field for over a decade, is that Amazon is a company that does the least to exert monopoly power out of all the big tech companies. In fact, they do so little that I think they are being stupid.
      • ameister14 3y ago
        That's not a really good point. "They're bad, but they aren't as bad as those other guys. In fact, I think they are stupid for not being worse."
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