I'm going to shamelessly hijack this question to pose something that came to mind reading this, and the more abridged exploratory linked by another commentor (https://qz.com/282971/what-everyones-getting-wrong-about-ama... for the interested), since AWS was mentioned.

I propose a thought experiment:

Supposing government takes Kahn up on this modest proposal and starts levying real regulatory eyeballs on Amazon and actually end up with something on the House floor. Asking the HN crowd: how do you think this would even affect AWS as a product and would it have any sort of ripple effects to the industries and working engineers that rely on it?

How is that a checkmate?