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why would it be illegal?

• Jtsummers 14y ago
  The implication being that they're abusing their market position as a payment service to prevent potential competition against their other business (book sales). Not being able to get to unglue.it here at work I don't know the specifics. However, since Amazon isn't (as far as I know) in anyway a monopoly or majority concern in the payment processing business then this could be abusive, but is likely not illegal.
  • gluejar 14y ago
    Seems unlikely.
    • Jtsummers 14y ago
      I agree, I've just heard enough people making arguments about situations like this that I thought I'd share the reasoning they offer, and then followed it up with why it's flawed. For instance, I have a coworker who keeps insisting that Apple should have been hit with an anti-trust suit like MS since they only allowed the Safari browser on iOS (for a time). He was dead serious (for some reason he truly hates Apple and wants to see the corporation fail, still owns an iPhone though). It was based off a flawed understanding of the laws and the markets the laws apply to. A lot of people seem to jump to the legality of the actions of the group in charge of a particular platform without considering whether that platform is one of a larger marketplace.