Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by lenkite 2132 days ago
Are you truly defending Amazon, one of the leading stars of anti-competitive practices - in-fact the textbook definition ? I am utterly flabbergasted and also a bit scared that someone on HN thinks that what they do just fine and dandy.

Where to start ? Shall we talk about the way they changed their algorithm to put their products first after claiming with a straight face they were only a neutral market place ? This while exercising 40% (and rising) of all e-commerce in the US ? https://www.wsj.com/articles/amazon-changed-search-algorithm...

The company that blocks sellers from using Fedex ? That flexes its control - illegally - on logistics ?

https://www.wsj.com/articles/amazon-blocks-sellers-from-usin...

This is just the tip of the ice-berg. We can go talk about the corruption behind Amazon's Choice program, their environment sustainability "joke", the Amazon "real worker ambassadors' who are "paid to praise" on social media and claim "great working conditions" while shooting down genuine grievances. Corporate Communism at its finest - praise the Party of Bezos - makes the CCP look like an amateur.

You can vote out Trump. You can't lift a finger against the march of Bezos and Amazon.

They are a horror company who are a clear and present danger to both US capitalism and democracy.

Several nations and states have now opened anti-trust investigations against Amazon. Lets pray something comes out of it or the world will be kneeling to Bezos before too long.

https://www.medianama.com/2020/08/223-amazon-antitrust-canad... https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/mt/ip_19_... https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-08-03/amazon-s-...