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There are many small businesses who use Amazon as a platform for reaching their customers. If Amazon kicks them out, their business evaporates in an instant.

You may think it's foolish to create such a fragile business. I know I do. But the fact remains that this happens. Ebay and YouTube are to other obvious examples of corporate platforms people use to pay rent, which many cut them off capriciously and without due process. As are mobile appstores, particularly Apple's.




Wouldn't that be an argument that we should do something about Amazon's monopoly, then? If they provide the only service that allows some chunk of the economy to function, that should be taken into account when we regulate them more heavily.


Sure, I'd support that. My above comments are certainly not a suggestion that these companies not be broken up!




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