The government has filed a long-awaited antitrust suit against the company, which controls a sweeping share of the U.S.’s online-shopping market. What will it accomplish?
, the chair of the Federal Trade Commission, established her prominence as a legal scholar largely by critiquing Amazon’s sprawling business. In 2017, while she was still a student at Yale Law School, she published atitled “Amazon’s Antitrust Paradox,” which argued that the accepted paradigm for analyzing antitrust violations was outdated.
In 2021, Khan took up the post of chair of the F.T.C., and since then observers have anticipated a case that the agency would bring against Amazon under her leadership. Last Tuesday, it finally did. The case, which was filed in conjunction with seventeen states, accuses the company of using its monopoly position in online retail to suppress competition.
Amazon is the third major tech company to face monopolization accusations by the government in the past three years—many also think its case will be the hardest for the government to successfully argue. In 2021, the F.T.C. filed an amended complaint against Meta , after an earlier one had been dismissed for failing to make a strong enough argument that Facebook had become a monopoly.
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