Jul 24, 2017 · 1 min read
From what I understand Amazon has an algorithm that decides what you see and they have the power to control the options available to you from those other sellers. Plus, they take their cut from those sellers and could easily put a lot of the companies that sell via Amazon out of business, simply by raising their fees. There’s also the time Amazon’s web data services were out for a couple hours and the internet pretty much broke because so many companies (and gvt agencies) store their data on Amazon’s servers… I could go on…
For more visit: https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/7xpgvx/amazons-is-trying-to-control-the-underlying-infrastructure-of-our-economy and https://ilsr.org/amazon-stranglehold/.