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Jon Renaut | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @dee34601 FTC is going to win this and Amazon will pay a fine of 16 seconds worth of global revenue and nothing will change
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Peter Krupa | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @9cbde81a this is a pretty safe bet!
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67c71219 | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Nah, they'll just drag it out in litigation hell until there's a Republican administration, and then it'll get summarily dropped.

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Peter Krupa | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @54a21f42 @9cbde81a i sort of don't think we can just blame Republicans for this one. Silicon Valley has done an **excellent** job buying influence with Democrats. hell, Jay Carney is their head of policy.
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noadmin | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @dee34601 you can, you absolutely can. There’s a reason this is happening now and didn’t during orange man’s time
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Peter Krupa | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @4ab49a17 are you not remembering that Trump spent his entire term attacking Bezos and the Washington Post? his DoD tried to deny Amazon a huge cloud contract over their feud. https://www.cnbc.com/2019/10/26/trump-mattis-screw-amazon-10-billion-pentagon-cloud-contract-jedi.html