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

  • reversebananimalsEnglish
    53·
    2 years ago

    No doubt this is slimy, but does it make Amazon a monopoly? It seems like a tough case for the FTC to win.

    • grueEnglish
      141·
      2 years ago

      Contrary to popular corporatist disinformation, anti-trust law isn’t just for literal control-100.000000%-of-the-market “monopolies.” Any company (or colluding group of companies) large enough to unduly influence the market can be subject to it.

      That’s why it’s called “anti-trust” law, not “anti-monopoly” law.

    • InfiniteVariablesEnglish
      9·
      2 years ago

      Not sure but giving your own products preferential placement on what you present to the public as an open marketplace is an anti-competitive behavior that they have been caught doing.