The government’s new attack on Amazon could completely restructure the giant – Politico

“’Today the FTC took a first step to restoring the liberty of every individual and business who relies on essential internet platforms to exchange goods, services, and ideas with one another,’ said Barry Lynn, who heads the antimonopoly group Open Markets Institute, and is a long-time advocate for aggressive antitrust enforcement in the tech sector. ‘The FTC did so by targeting some of the most egregious abuses by Amazon of the dominant position it has acquired over vast swaths of online commerce, and the corporation’s routinized manipulation of other people’s business for its own private purposes.’”

Wondering why the sweeping antitrust suit does not include the Robinson-Patman Act among the laws violated.

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Amazon’s Antitrust Paradox – Lina Khan/Yale Law Journal

“Low” prices compared to what? How can a monopolist prove that it offers low prices to consumers when it has squeezed most of its competitors out of the marketplace?

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