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@matthewstoller: 1. This is a holy $&$#& story of corruption and threats from Amazon, where their head lobbyist was caught on tape. First, the small stuff. It shows Amazon regularly buys off academics, in this case...…
Amazon's marketplace is not where they make their money. AWS has a strangehold on the cloud. Many of the businesses you rely on have moved their entire infrastructure into Amazon's cloud. They could black out large portions of the internet or deny web hosting based on political affiliations - they did this to Parler previously.
Don't disagree but the article specifically mentions shutting down the Markeplace.