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| Jeff Bezos and All He Owns Must Be Destroyed |
| 2017-11-25 |
| There is a basic premise behind reporting .vs. editorializing -- one is allegedly unbiased, although we all have our personal prejudices while the other is labeled opinion (it's found on the opinion page and is disclosed as such.) Jeff Bezos bought the Washington Post, it is now clear, in order to effect a public lobbying strategy much larger than that which Hastings "organized" and led to a five times increase in his firm's stock price revolving around net neutrality. That latter event occurred after ISPs, properly recognizing that he was effectively driving semi trucks over the roads built for cars and refusing to pay higher fuel taxes and license plate fees for same, or, if you prefer, opening up a 2" water connection to a 6" main and demanding not to be charged by the gallon, resulting in you having no water pressure, started pushing back and demanding that Netflix cover the outsized costs being imposed on said ISPs to prevent service-quality collapses to everyone, including those who didn't want his service. |
| Posted by:Anomalous Sources |
| #11 There is an upside, people who live in remote areas and small towns in the US can get things they need delivered to their front door. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2017-11-25 22:52 |
| #10 Thats because mentioning that Walmart delivered more goods would blow the authors premise to bits. What axe does that site have to grind? Hedge Fund? Short Squeeze? Getting caught because they be AMZ to drop and it hasnt? Follow the money. |
| Posted by: Injun Bucket8891 2017-11-25 22:21 |
| #9 Huh, not one mention of Walmart. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2017-11-25 19:39 |
| #8 Can a mod please fix? Thanks I removed the quotes around the URL, Seeking cure. That fixed the problem, as sometimes it does. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2017-11-25 19:35 |
| #7 Monopolies are not illegal. It’s using monopoly power to gain unfair competitive advantage that’s illegal. For instance, “tying”, which is using the monopoly power to gain advantage in another market. Or by predatory pricing. Amazon does all those things, but they will argue that they are not a monopoly in any market, because they have several major competitors. They are certainly not a monopoly like Microsoft was. |
| Posted by: KBK 2017-11-25 13:38 |
| #6 "Democracy dies in darkness" isn't a warning. It's a goal. |
| Posted by: Iblis 2017-11-25 12:42 |
| #5 Between all the stuff coming from China and Amazon, Main Street USA has all but disappeared along with good jobs. In addition Amazon-owned WAPO is running cover. Clowns in America money went into Bezoz WAPO purchase. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2017-11-25 07:23 |
| #4 Need to remove "rantberg.com" and quotation marks for image in article to be viewable, Can a mod please fix? Thanks |
| Posted by: Seeking cure for ignorance 2017-11-25 05:33 |
| #3 There is a basic premise behind reporting .vs. editorializing -- one is allegedly unbiased, although we all have our personal prejudices while the other is labeled opinion (it's found on the opinion page and is disclosed as such.) Personal wish rather than reality. Thus the rise of the internet and continued collapse of MSM. It's not that the internet provides 'unbias reporting' as much as alternative opinion. This is illegal under 100+ year old anti-trust law which says that any attempt to monopolize trade is a felony. Really? Ma Bell operated a monopoly for pretty much of that hundred years, never faced a felony indictment. Rather it ultimately faced a regulatory breakup into 'Baby Bells'. However, what finally opened the market was technology not criminal prosecution. Writer is more than dishonest on that general statement. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2017-11-25 04:17 |
| #2 Ummm what about Kindle? It's done the world a big favour by breaking the big 5's near monopoly on books and given talented writers opportunities that didn't exist before. Wanna put Jeffy in his place and make him sweat? Offer better sevice and product variety than he does. |
| Posted by: Glineting Smith1983 2017-11-25 03:10 |
| #1 They are awful. Send the wrong things 1/4 if the time. And commies. |
| Posted by: newc 2017-11-25 01:12 |