FTC files “the big one,” a lawsuit alleging Amazon illegally maintains monopoly::FTC: Amazon “extracts enormous monopoly rents from everyone within its reach.”

  • @WilliamTheWicked@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    …can we just skip to the part where Amazon pays less than a fractional percent of their profit in fines and then proceeds with business as usual? I just feel like the charade has grown tiresome at this point.

    • @chonglibloodsport@lemmy.ca
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      652 years ago

      You must’ve missed the part where Lina Khan built her entire career and reputation on an article she wrote for the Yale Law Journal as a law student arguing that Amazon should be split into separate companies and prevented from re-integrating.

      She is considered a radical within the antitrust law world. She is vigorously opposed to vertically integrated monopolies of which Amazon is a star example. This case against Amazon is basically the final boss of her career and her legal movement, the New Brandeis Movement.

    • @WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world
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      2 years ago

      Ah well, better not try then. Guess we just have to learn to like the taste of corporate boot.

      Maybe some more wanking about some glorious revolution that will never happen will make that boot taste better.

    • @Mog_fanatic@lemmy.world
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      52 years ago

      I feel the exact same way with celebrities or the uber wealthy and criminal trials. Just skip to the part where they pay .000000001% of their net worth n fines or bail or whatever and get off scot free.