= Amazon anticompetitive acquisition
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<Amazon> is apparently notorious for having bought off many competitors, many of them just to kill off the competition and clear the way, not to actually reuse them.
https://youtu.be/tfAhTtBlb2Q?t=849 from <video Jeff Bezos Revealed by Bloomberg (2015)> clearly shows <Tim O'Reilly> saying that very clearly about Bezos.
\Q[[I do know of a number of cases in which he [Bezos] has acquired companies in order to take out competitors, potential future competitors. Rather than because he actually wants that business to continue.]]
Perhaps O'Reilly who is the bookselling business is not the greatest fan of Jeff. But still. My God.
https://www.yalelawjournal.org/pdf/e.710.Khan.805_zuvfyyeh.pdf Amazon's Antitrust Paradox by Lina M . Khan from The Yale Law Journal raises this incredible issue.