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Amazon documents reveal company’s strategy to dodge India’s regulators

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Re: Amazon documents reveal company’s strategy to dodge India’s regulators

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It disturbs me that with each day, it seems like the Great Chinese Firewall was a good solution.

You keep out the foreign competition letting internal competition foster and you stop a capital drain.

Imagine if the EU had it’s own Alibaba, Baidu or WeChat... That is a lot of taxpaying money...

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Amazon being shady with government what's new. It's a monopoly and only care about itself.

But the question remains unanswered, is this behavior we should expect or reward when it is one of the world's largest and most influential actors?

Re: Amazon documents reveal company’s strategy to dodge India’s regulators

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It disturbs me that with each day, it seems like the Great Chinese Firewall was a good solution. You keep out the foreign competition letting internal competition foster and you stop a capital drain. Imagine if the EU had it’s own Alibaba, Baidu or WeChat... That is a lot of taxpaying money...

I wonder about this. China has its own app ecosystem, as does Russia. India is pushing towards having its own as well. What about Europe? Is it harder because you have to localize to so many languages?

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Yet more evidence to be used in the eventual US anti-trust case demonstrating a pattern of anti-competitive behavior. Prefering big sellers and lying about it is not "customer centric" in any market. Actions like this are going to eventually crush the stock value. When that happens senior employees will cash out and retail will be sold off to the highest bidding hedge fund. AWS is the money maker anyway and that will be protected at all costs.

Re: Amazon documents reveal company’s strategy to dodge India’s regulators

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It disturbs me that with each day, it seems like the Great Chinese Firewall was a good solution. You keep out the foreign competition letting internal competition foster and you stop a capital drain. Imagine if the EU had it’s own Alibaba, Baidu or WeChat... That is a lot of taxpaying money...

I wonder about this. China has its own app ecosystem, as does Russia. India is pushing towards having its own as well. What about Europe? Is it harder because you have to localize to so many languages?

That, and the inter-cultural differences are certainly a large stumbling block.

Re: Amazon documents reveal company’s strategy to dodge India’s regulators

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It disturbs me that with each day, it seems like the Great Chinese Firewall was a good solution. You keep out the foreign competition letting internal competition foster and you stop a capital drain. Imagine if the EU had it’s own Alibaba, Baidu or WeChat... That is a lot of taxpaying money...

I wonder about this. China has its own app ecosystem, as does Russia. India is pushing towards having its own as well. What about Europe? Is it harder because you have to localize to so many languages?

Yes the EU single market works well for goods, but not so much for services. Not just languages, there are significant law differences as well.
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