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Dumb government. Higher prices and less variety for you. Why can’t they just let adults buy and sell the way they want to?
Would be nice but Amazon are quite keen on not letting that happen.
The law just needs to be: You can be the platform or you can be on the platform, but not both.
Enron was breaking this principle when their energy traders would call up a power plant they also owned and ask for an unscheduled outage. I don't remember if this was specifically illegal in this case, but I used to have to take an online class once a year to remind me not to share any non-public data with marketing in one such regulated industry and that there would be serious consequences if this rule was broken.
The law just needs to be: You can be the platform or you can be on the platform, but not both.
Every single grocery store uses data to curate and prioritize house brand products. Somehow this is lauded in the food industry, but demonized in the tech industry.
It’s not lauded. Suppliers hate the power the big supermarkets have over them. But stores’ data is probably down the list after the payment terms they dictate, not being paid , and payment for in-store product placement etc
Dumb government. Higher prices and less variety for you. Why can’t they just let adults buy and sell the way they want to?
Why can’t they just let adults buy and sell the way they want to? Would be nice but Amazon are quite keen on not letting that happen.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why can’t they just let adults buy and sell the way they want to? Would be nice but Amazon are quite keen on not letting that happen.
Amazon has never stopped anyone from putting up a website and shipping things to customers.
The law just needs to be: You can be the platform or you can be on the platform, but not both.
I am for these changes, just asking the question I honestly worry about.