How Amazon has not been bankrupted by suits is beyond me. They receive my money, they ship the item from their warehouse. They can tell tales all day but there simply is no third party anywhere close to this transaction.
I don't think Amazon is in that category, do you? AWS definitely for the computing industry, but for sales like these it seems like it would be a boon for local retailers.
Amazon is increasingly woven into the fabric of our economy. How long before it truly is too "big" (read: has installed enough shills in government) to fail, or too big to punish? They would be following in the great traditions laid by oil companies, auto makers, telcos, and of course banks.
Case in point: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14865112
Here's an example post about this topic: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3760275.
I still think it's broken. A slight fix would be to only grey-out flagged comments and use a separate (or no) way of indicating a comment is down-voted. Grouping poor comments so tightly with unpopular comments is moronic IMO.
Where the case here is that it's a bunch of individual businesses that have to weigh their cost of pursuing with the cost of not pursuing a suit, individually.