This clearly shows why Amazon needs to be broken up. To allow a company to disrupt and disband local supply chains and then try to strong arm governments is very dangerous.
Walmart is known as a town killer. Amazon is an industry killer.
Walmart is known as a town killer. Amazon is an industry killer.
"Considering the complexity inherent in our logistics activities and the fine of one million euros per infraction imposed by the court, the risk of contravening the decision was too high."
This seems to be a valid reason for suspending operations, although no where in the tweet-thread explains how frequent the fines would be. If they can't comply with the order fast enough, shutting down operations in order to have time to comply without getting fined seems reasonable.
Why is it an issue with Amazon?
It seems like a good starting solution without having to go for the nuclear option.
EDIT: Those who're getting upset at it, think why or how is this any different than what OP wrote. If you want to create a liberal democracy with prosperous free markets then you create a set of deterministic rules and let people act under it. IF you don't like an outcome, don't apply hacks to it like break up a big company because you're upset at it, but change the basic rules (if you need to, which I think is a terrible idea in this situation).
Amazon didn't do anything wrong other than played by the rules. If you don't like the outcome, don't try to apply hacks.