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FTC chair Lina Khan is Kicking A** and Taking Names

2023/11/15
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Michael Loewinger：亚马逊利用其垄断地位扼杀竞争，损害用户利益，操纵价格。 David Remnick：亚马逊利用垄断地位提高对商家的收费，并暗中提高消费者价格，损害消费者和商家利益。 Lina Khan：亚马逊的反折扣政策导致商家提高除亚马逊以外平台的价格，从而抬高全网价格；亚马逊搜索页面充斥着与消费者需求无关的广告，引导消费者购买更昂贵的产品；亚马逊滥用垄断权力，损害美国公众利益；亚马逊的垄断行为对消费者和商家都有害，在竞争市场中，亚马逊会受到约束，但在当前市场中并非如此；本诉讼旨在确保开放竞争市场，允许新的亚马逊式公司出现；反垄断法旨在维护开放市场，确保人们免受单一公司的支配；亚马逊的论点是其促进了电子商务发展并帮助了独立卖家，但实际上其反竞争行为损害了市场公平竞争；亚马逊的反折扣政策和对“多平台销售”的限制是其反竞争行为的两个主要方面；亚马逊采取了一系列策略来阻止其他公司发展壮大；为了解决亚马逊的反竞争行为，所有补救措施都应该被考虑，包括拆分；政府对科技公司的监管滞后，错失了阻止非法收购和掠夺性商业模式的机会；政府需要警惕少数公司控制人工智能相关资源的风险；对科技公司反垄断的监管存在两党共识，因为这些公司滥用权力损害了公众利益；亚马逊诉讼案得到了部分共和党州的支持，国会也存在两党合作的立法努力；国会对科技公司的关注度正在提高，部分原因是选民的担忧；美国正处于反垄断监管的关键时刻，政府正在努力恢复公平竞争。

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Lina Khan discusses Amazon's historical analogies, its monopoly power, and the anti-competitive practices that harm both consumers and merchants, leading to the FTC's lawsuit against the company.

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As we've discussed on the show at length, most recently with Cory Doctorow in our series The Enshittification of Everything), Amazon has slowly been inserting itself into seemingly every facet of our lives. All the while using its status as a monopoly in the market to squash competition, take advantage of its users and skew prices for everyone. At the end of our series Doctorow described how he has hope in among other people, Lina Khan, the chair of the Federal Trade Commission. 

Says Khan; “Amazon has actually quietly been hiking prices for consumers in ways that are not always clearly visible but at the end of the day can result in consumers paying billions of dollars more than they would if there was actually competition in the market.” 

In this midweek episode, we are airing a conversation our colleague and host of the New Yorker Radio Hour), David Remnick had with Lina Khan about her plan to sue Amazon for violating antitrust laws. 

 

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