Lina Khan is a key architect of an aggressive attempt by Washington to rein in tech giants. Amazon may be next.
Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Chair Lina Khan will reportedly meet with representatives from Amazon (AMZN) next week in what could be the last face-to-face between the parties before the commission files an antitrust suit against the e-commerce giant.
Scamazon need to be broken up in the worst way. IDK where to make the breaks, but some breaks need to be made.
Personally I don’t think any company should be involved in multiple business “entities”
Where I live there is a telecom trying to also offer healthcare services. Seriously, wtf. At that point just create a new company.
Telus? What a bunch of crooked hosers.
Let’s start with breaking AWS into somewhere between 3-12 different entities. Make Audible several different companies, and separate prime video from prime shipping.
The basic outline of where to split the company seems straightforward to me.
AWS get split off first and foremost, that part is blatantly clear to me.
From there, the retail webstore (what we generally think of as “Amazon”) gets split off from its broad category of services: music and movie streaming and everything in that category.
After that, split anything that involves designing/repurposing other designs and selling a specific consumer product off. Kindle, Alexa, Roomba (if that purchase goes through), Amazon Basics, etc.
I think there’s a decent amount of room to get more granular with the process, but I think that covers it as a basic outline.
Amazon has become our de facto national infrastructure for distributing goods. I say we recognize what is already reality and just nationalize it.