Lina Khan si mette i guantoni.
Anni addietro, quando stavo in parlamento, avevo fatto una proposta di legge per proibire i sussidi incrociati. E’ il caso di tutte quelle iniziative fatte in perdita pur di penalizzare o escludere possibili concorernti attuali o futuri.
Perche’, ad esempio, Google investe cosi’ tanto per Chrome che non genera ricavi ?
E’ un caso che poi puo’ fare l’iniziativa “per la privacy” (vedi Google’s and Apple Neospeak) e tagliare fuori tutti gli operatori del ‘programmatic advertising’.
Ma non puo’ certo fare il monopolista, ed ecco il sostegno fianziario ad Apple (che ha safari) e a Mozilla (che fa firefox…), con quote di mercato q.b.
Source: Gizmodo
Federal Trade Commissioner Lina Khan is finally entering the ring with Amazon, her oldest antitrust nemesis. The agency, along with 17 other state attorneys general, is officially suing Jezz Bezos’s e-commerce baby for growing and metastasizing into a trillion-dollar anti-competitive monopoly, allegedly at the expense of consumers and sellers.
On Tuesday, the FTC and the attorneys general filed the historic lawsuit, which accuses the e-commerce giant of using “interlocking anticompetitive and unfair strategies” to maintain an illegal monopoly.
The landmark 172- page suit, filed in Western Washington district court, claims Amazon leveraged its monopoly power to simultaneously raise prices for consumers and crush would-be competitors. Today’s complaint builds off of a years-long investigation into Amazon’s business practices and marks one of the most significant legal challenges to the company since its founding three decades ago.
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