Amazon already faces a major antitrust challenge from the FTC.
Arizona is goddamn right.
Arizona accuses Amazon of being a monopoly and deceiving consumers with “dark patterns”
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alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml 6 months ago
Nationalize Amazon. Yes all of it.
The number of government functions that use AWS alone makes it a matter of national security.
NegativeInf@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Roll all of the Amazon marketplace into the fucking postal service. Clogging up the damn systems anyways. Might as well fucking turn the warehouses into sorting centers for mail too and pay their workers well, have benefits, a pension, ac, and bathroom breaks.
Landsharkgun@midwest.social 6 months ago
Shit, came here to say the same thing.
jaybone@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Morally this is the right thing. But I worry about governments taking private assets and property. Seems like the US gov could just start their own competing version on of Amazon. And this would mean competition, which is good for the consumer.
alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml 6 months ago
Nah, taking property from billionaires is good, it leaves them with less capability to buy politicians.
Alxe@lemmy.world 6 months ago
There are other countries that also rely on Amazon services. Mationalizing the company would be a major diplomatic and economic blow to the USA.
oldfemboy@lemmy.ml 6 months ago
They should nationalize it in every country.
alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml 6 months ago
See? Even more reason to!
But really though, the US can extract any data or other concession they want from Amazon already, it would only change the perceptions of foreign countries who aren’t paying attention.