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Originally Posted by Adder
This is called "competition." Lots of people have tried to find a way to call it something else, but none convincingly.
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Perhaps in some instances that defense holds. But if I am selling Widget X on AMZN platform, without use of which I cannot really enter the online marketplace, and AMZN intentionally:
1. Sells the same thing at a loss on its platform, to undercut my ability to sell; and/or,
2. Seeks to divert customers from me to another seller with which AMZN has a better deal (or of which AMZN is a part owner),
Is that really competition, or is that anti-competitive use of monopoly power over the online marketplace (which it owns)?