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It seem that as a society we are coming to realize that enabling anyone to do anything on their own and at anytime isn't the best of ideas.

Verifiability and authenticity matter and are valuable. Amazon has long had a problem of fake reviews. This issue with kindle books seems an extension of that. Massive centralized platforms like Amazon makes fraud more likely and is bad for the consumer.

The "decentralization" that we need as a society is not in the form of any crypto based technical capability but simply for the size of the massive players to be reduced so competition can reemerge and give consumers more options on where and how to spend their dollars. Other E-book stores may just pop up that develop relationships with publishers and disallow independent publishing if amazon were forced to be broken up.

I hope the FTC can begin finding a strategy to force some of these massive corporations to split making it more likely for there to be more competition.