FTC prepares “the big one,” a major lawsuit targeting Amazon’s core business

Earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36521388

Preamble: I do not think that large corporations are inherently bad.

This seems to be a good thing. When companies grow large enough to change daily life for a significant portion of people, they grow large enough for monopolistic abuse -- even when they are not strictly a monopoly. Having some oversight into their business practices helps provide some checks and balances to encourage them to play fair. It's not perfect, but this is one way that government tries to provide for the people by preventing capitalism from taking things too far.

> I do not think that large corporations are inherently bad.

There does seem to be an extremely high correlation between being enormous and no longer bothering to play by the same rules all other players are forced to play by though. So I agree, I just think that large corporations are empirically bad.

Burn down the technopolies!

While I agree, I doubt it will be the FTC who does this. They are better know now for charging paltry fines for major issues than actually doing anything to stop bad behavior.