Tuesday, May 31, 2022

Amazon Web Services, In Particular, Now Getting Deeper Attention From DoJ / Antitrust, Post The MGM Buy...


Several mainstream media outlets have stories on the renewed vigor of the antitrust authorities' reviews of Amazon, generally -- but particularly in both US media markets, and the company's roles, and de-facto rules, in what has traditionally been called resale price maintenance. Suggestions have long been lawful, but hard rules, by dominant market players like Amazon. . . are largely considered, even after 30 years of GOP erosion. . . unlawful as anti-competitive.

It seems Amazon has "rules" for sellers in its retail channels, that nearly completely prevent them from selling at a lower price on an alternate platform. This was long litigated in the 1950s and 1960s, in the big three automakers attempts to set prices at retail car dealers. So-called vertical resale price maintenance is unlawful.

Confidential Note, to one Jeff Bezos: It. Cannot. Be. Done. Lawfully. In. The. US.

In any event, do pop the popcorn -- as the robber-barons get schooled in federal law, here -- and on the labor relations front. Out, smiling. . . .

नमस्ते

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

ok...I just can't avoid mentioning this....https://www.msn.com/en-us/movies/news/nasas-new-voyager-development-eerily-echoes-star-trek-the-motion-pictures-plot/ar-AAXX39Y?li=BBnb7Kz. took them how long to come up with this??????


meanwhile, just to get your ire up: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/former-ag-whitaker-says-michael-sussmann-acquittal-looks-like-jury-nullification/ar-AAXXHUd?li=BBnbfcL

Be well

condor said...

You definitely had it first, on the V'ger. . . hilarious.

And on the second, not *just* jury nullification -- but some frothy right tin-foil hatters are now claiming that the "deep staters" at FBI *tricked* Durham into bringing baseless charges... wait for it... to discredit his whole "investigation".

Never mind that the powers of the GOP told Tangerine at the time in early 2019, that Durham was a battle-scarred pit bull of a lawyer that would eat HRC alive in the supposed "but her emails!" nonsense. No, Trump picked him, and he well-knew he had not a shred for a real case, so instead he used the federal courts to air some (he thought) dirty HRC laundry (the double hearsay junk).

And now (because as I recite at the link below), it is very common for federal agents to have secure workspaces inside companies and their law firms... I can put to bed the notion that the law firm for HRC was somehow running a "deep state" operation, and controlling the FBI.

WTAH?!

Anyhoo -- here is that essay:

https://wp.me/pbVbUZ-4FQ

That guy i mention there, Hinderaker, is a frothy far right conspiracies nut; he was once a passable trial lawyer -- but that was over two decades ago. Now his brain has gone to. . . mush. Quite obviously.

Namaste -- as ever, great stuff!