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Amazon is the apex predator of our platform era

Why Lina Khan and the FTC must prevail in their long-awaited lawsuit against Amazon

    • Amazon gets the consumer coming and going, providing worse goods at higher prices while receiving vast sums in subsidies from state and local governments.
    • Amazon gets the consumer coming and going, providing worse goods at higher prices while receiving vast sums in subsidies from state and local governments. PHOTO: REUTERS

    Cory Doctorow

    Published Thu, Sep 28, 2023 · 12:15 PM

    THE US Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) chair, Lina Khan, has brought her long-awaited, audacious case against Amazon, signalling the Biden administration’s determination to restore an approach to competition law that has been in decline since the Carter administration.

    This will doubtless draw fresh criticism about her supposed overreach. But Amazon is precisely the kind of company that Congress had in mind in enacting America’s many antitrust laws.

    Only more so: The Congress of 1890, which passed the first of those laws, could never have imagined the world we now inhabit.

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