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US antitrust case against Amazon to move forward

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Re: US antitrust case against Amazon to move forward

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For some weird reason, outlinks are to be avoided, because it's seen as "leaving your site". In a store front, I can see that making sense. In a site to provide information... not so much.

News sites aren't just providing information: they're trading reporting for ad impressions.

Serious question: are paywalled news articles better at outlinking and do they have no ads?

Re: US antitrust case against Amazon to move forward

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The FTC won the case against Google did they not? Which monopolies would you like to see them tackle?

They should probably just stop shaking down the American tech firms that are driving US economic growth.

Companies that use their market position to kill competition hurts economic growth.

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It's in violation of the sacred law of the attention economy: Never link outside your garden.

For some weird reason, outlinks are to be avoided, because it's seen as "leaving your site". In a store front, I can see that making sense. In a site to provide information... not so much.

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Re: US antitrust case against Amazon to move forward

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Not every one can afford the name brand. - Sincerely a kid raised on everything store brand.

I dont think anyone's arguing against generic alternatives of name brand items. The issue here is Amazon using up-and-coming and popular products as fodder for them to generic-ize and push to the top of results, essentially knee capping the original seller.

All retailers do that. It's called private labels. None of the products are made by the retailer either. As unfortunate to those who might genuinely believe Trader Joes products are unique to them, or that Great Value was Walmart using its massive distribution systems to quickly scale core products like Milk out. It's all private labelling.

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I know she's on the right track because the ghouls here are calling her political.

i genuinely have no idea why someone would be trying to defend amazon on HN

Monopolistic behavior helped these companies mint thousands of millionaires, including regular employees enjoying stock options. Some of those people are bound to be in this thread.

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What has she done that didn't fail or get shot down as political overreach? (not being sarcastic...i mean that i may have missed something inadvertently)

Not GP. I would say that her effectiveness is both in Fire and Motion [1], while one wants more Fire, before the status quo was not only no fire, but also no motion. Even the motion is a good starting point that businesses are having management adapt their strategies and plans to account for the motion, just out self-interested risk mitigation in case there is more fire than there currently is today, and that fire ge…

A good analogy, but I think you swapped the meaning of fire and motion in your usage of it.

In this case, her cases even if lost would be the equivalent of cover fire. Businesses need to re-act to the cover fire and cannot advance (perform their own motion) while she is firing.

The second part is that you would hope/expect her to be able to gain territory in the near future via the "motion" part of the strategy.

So I agree in your framing, just from my perspective you flipped the terminology.

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I find this to be the case with most primary sources, not just for court cases. A couple days ago, an American WWII bomb exploded at a Japanese airport and the article linked on HN didn't even show or link the video. Legacy media really sucks.

Why single out legacy media for this specifically? This isn't something newer media is better at.

Many popular podcasts would show the video, or pull up fact-checking in real time. If that's what you mean by "newer media" I would say it's 10x better.

Reuters is legacy media, hence why I mentioned legacy media.

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I don't know if I accept Khan's framing of, even though I haven't won any cases I have scared off potential mergers and that is a win. I think the US already leans too heavily on tying everything up in courts forever.

Was the successful Google antitrust case not brought by the feds?

That was the DOJ not the FTC.

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Why single out legacy media for this specifically? This isn't something newer media is better at.

Many popular podcasts would show the video, or pull up fact-checking in real time. If that's what you mean by "newer media" I would say it's 10x better. Reuters is legacy media, hence why I mentioned legacy media.

Linking the publishing source is needed too. So many videos get reposted and mislabeled.

Like basically any rocket attack I assume happened in like 2006 and between completely different belligerents than whatever a post claims at this point

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News sites aren't just providing information: they're trading reporting for ad impressions.

Serious question: are paywalled news articles better at outlinking and do they have no ads?

in my experience of i pay a sub it removes ads from the site at least, although not sponsored content
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