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I don’t really know what anyone in this situation wanted to happen here? Amazon and Apple and Google have been trying to stem the tide of a massive wave of low-quality books and apps hitting their stores trying to make a quick buck off people’s ignorance and fear.

Refusing to publish content related to COVID because nobody has the time and resources to go through them all is the best you can do. If they just let people publish the story would be “Amazon doing nothing about COVID misinformation spreading through their store.”

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Yeah, his point are not are not good, but if you think about the Bell-Story (the us allowed just one company to take over the phones-lines the other can make the computers), if you look at amazon and google today, that's definitely a mono-pol.

In what sector is Amazon a monopoly?

Shopping, Data-centers, Live-Streaming, Audio-book's and E-books maybe even logistics.

Edit: Hey Jeff please stop down-voting me, you know it's the truth ;)

Quoting a comment from upstream in response to this:

> In what sector is Amazon a monopoly. Retail? Walmart is much larger and Amazon's share of the market is too small to be a monopoly. Ecommerce? Even in ecommerce, Amazon's share is <50%.

So let's summarize: Amazon isn't a monopoly in "shopping" in any sense; there are other companies that run datacenters; since when does Amazon do live streaming? (and even if it does there are a million other apps/websites more people use for that); they don't have a monopoly in audiobooks; and they CERTAINLY don't have a monopoly in ebooks.

Just because they're a big noticeable name doesn't make them a monopoly. I'd downvote you if you could, and my name isn't Jeff.

1: Waltmart is just us, amazon is global (try to think about that the world is bigger then just the us please)

2: Livestreaming - Twitch, with you're arguments google is not a monopoly (there are other search-engines) and no, livestreaming to millions is not something 1000 other apps can do...know why...datacenters

3: Audible probably 90% market-share

4: Ebooks of course they are the biggest seller of ebooks in combination with kindle's

5: Yes there are other's but the only competitor is Azure and google..that's maybe the only point where you are right

1. Walmart operates in many countries, plus their US only revenue might be larger than Amazon's all retail revenue. Plus Google, Apple, Microsoft, Facebook operate in nearly all countries, a much bigger number than Amazon.

2. Twitch is restricted to a niche. Facebook video, YouTube, and even TikTok all have more users.

3. This might be correct but this is a very small market. Microsoft has similar market share in Office Suits.

4. Biggest seller doesn't make a monopoly. If it did, every industry will bave a monopoly.

5. How is AWS a monopoly there, when so many competitors exist, and the likes of Google have humongous internal data centres which might be on the same scale as all of AWS.

>Google, Apple, Microsoft, Facebook

Not shopping/ecommerce..oh and i never said that google is not a monopoly

>Twitch is restricted to a niche

Facbook, ~youtube, TikTok ist NOT Livestreaming...also not Zoom or Skype

>Biggest seller doesn't make a monopoly

When you (Amazon) can make the price because everything other is a loss for you (the producer)..yes then it is a monopoly

>How is AWS a monopoly there

Yes i wrote thats maybe the only point you are right

Oh and here a interesting link for your Walmart-theory: https://www.supermarketnews.com/retail-financial/amazon-pred...

TikTok is not primarily livestreaming, but it does have live streams (with live chat overlay on top of video, looking very similar to live streaming interface of Instagram or Periscope)

So apparently TikTok Live is mostly a competitor to those two (and maybe YouNow) but not to widescreen/desktop-oriented streams of Twitch

YouTube Live on the other hand is very much a competitor to Twitch (livestreaming to millions and NOT auto-expiring/deleting past broadcasts by default is something only YouTube can do for now)

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