L4sBotAmazon faces potential break-up as FTC finalizes antitrust lawsuit | The FTC is getting ready for the big one
DragonAceWho in the fuck do they think they’re fooling? There hasn’t been any sort of large corporate antitrust breakup since Bell Systems in the early 80s. They expect us to believe that after damn near 40 years of inaction, suddenly they’re going to do their jobs again? This is nothing but pandering to get approval ratings up.
It helps that Republicans and Democrats both seem to be united in their wariness of big tech.
This smells like fodder just in time for election season
Dude, the 80s wasn’t 40 years ago…
Damn I got old…
The 80s will always be 20 years ago. Y2k was ten years ago, the 2010s didn’t happen and we’re both old.
Damn, there might be a group of us.
The FTC has actually been crazy busy this administration - www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases - they’re really doing far more than at any other point in my lifetime.
DominusOfMegadeusI fully support the FTC burning it all down, but then I read this paragraph, and it did not give me confidence: “The FTC has had Amazon in its sights this year. The company recently agreed to a $5.8 million settlement with the Commission over Ring privacy violations that included employees spying on customers. And in June, the FTC sued Amazon over “deceptive” Prime subscription tactics.”
5.8 million is probably Jeff Bezos’s weekly cheese budget. It’s loose change in his car seat.
I fully support the FTC burning it all down
Lol sayin the quiet part out loud
If it’s about burning down the corporate regulatory capture and their stranglehold on markets that killed free market capitalism, then it’s not the quiet part. That’s the literal mission of the FTC that it hasn’t been fulfilling for half a century now.
killed free market capitalism
Citation needed.