FTC Sues Amazon for Illegally Maintaining Monopoly Power ( www.ftc.gov )

UrLogicFails OP , 9 months ago

It really feels like the FTC woke up a little while ago and is finally trying to enforce anti-trust rules.

Though I do worry it’s a case of too little, too late; I remember they had to break up Microsoft a couple of decades ago and it certainly helped for a while. Hopefully these actions can help too, even if things already seem pretty far gone

ShellMonkey , 9 months ago

Ma Bell was broken up and now we’re essentially back to two of the original ‘baby bells’ in the form of AT&T and Version after years of mergers. She deal with the Standard Oil matter. Unless something is done before hand to prevent the reformation of these behemouths it’s pretty well the inevitable result of capitalist systems. MS, Apple, and Amazon where early to their fields and took over through much the same ways. What we need is a SEC/FCC/FTC that is willing to not give approval for these big purchases as the default.