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Amazon's new antitrust paradox

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Amazon's new antitrust paradox

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Casey Newton
May 26, 2021
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Amazon's new antitrust paradox

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An Amazon Echo Dot showing a red ring in front of a laptop. Piotr Cichosz / Unsplash
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Let’s talk about Amazon’s latest antitrust conflict, which illustrates the way tech companies are now getting hammered from every side of an argument at once.

For the past 40 years or so, the Supreme Court has emphasized consumer welfare — rather than reducing harm to a business’ competitors — as the the primary goal of antitrust…

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