Amazon faces potential break-up as FTC finalizes antitrust lawsuit
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The suit's main allegation is that Amazon abuses its dominance in the market to reward merchants who use its logistics (warehousing, shipping) and advertising services, punish those...

Amazon faces potential break-up as FTC finalizes antitrust lawsuit | The FTC is getting ready for the big one::undefined

  • mx_smithEnglish
    99·
    2 years ago

    Yeah remember when they were going to break up Microsoft? That went great.

    • chuckleslordEnglish
      311·
      2 years ago

      Yeah, there the FTC was with a clear market that Microsoft would have a monopoly over should the merger go through. They had Microsoft on the ropes, but, before they could finish them, Microsoft pinky promised prices wouldn’t go up. And that was that, no threat of a monopoly and the merger could go through.

      … the current antitrust ruling guidelines make enforcement basically impossible.

      • EldritchEnglish
        302·
        2 years ago

        It was more that George w Bush was elected. And cracking down on monopolies is against the code of fascists. Ideally they want to be in charge of all the monopolies. So he more or less called off the suit just as they were about to close in on Microsoft.

        • chuckleslordEnglish
          42·
          2 years ago

          I meant the Microsoft Activision Blizzard fiasco, I guess I didn’t realize.

          • EldritchEnglish
            21·
            2 years ago

            Oh yes that too. Microsoft is always been bad though. Always will be always has been.