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Amazon execs destroyed years of evidence before FTC action, agency says (www.seattletimes.com)
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Amazon execs destroyed years of evidence before FTC action, agency says::Amazon allegedly destroyed communications, turned controversial programs on and off, and knowingly raised prices for consumers, according to unsealed documents.

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[–] TheBat@lemmy.world 112 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Split Amazon into retail and web services and then further split them into multiple different companies. Amazon has gotten way too big and stifling competition along the way.

Do the same to Facebook too while we're at it. Fucking hate speech central.

[–] EnderMB@lemmy.world 20 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

They (technically) already are. I work for Amazon, but I don't get paid by "Amazon". I get paid for the subsidiary I work for.

Splitting is fine, but it's easily dealt with by megacorps. If anything, if the idea is floated, it's probably because they're absolutely fine with it.

If you want to break Amazon apart, do the one thing they hate. Enable their employees to unionize, and empower them to fight the decades-long HR machine that ruins corporate employees lives.

[–] SchizoDenji@lemm.ee 11 points 2 years ago (3 children)

The moment you seperate AWS from the rest, the rest will shut down.

[–] rustyricotta@lemmy.ml 29 points 2 years ago

If Amazon (retail) can't survive on it's own without exploiting workers and all the other crap they do, then we'll be better off without it.

[–] TheBat@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago

I'm not just asking to separate AWS. I want AWS to further split into different companies.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breakup_of_the_Bell_System

[–] Squizzy@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Why would you think that it isn't profitable?

[–] jwagner7813@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

Gotta go further and deeper then that too. There are other, larger and more diverse companies that are hiding in plain site behind the more popular business like Google, Amazon, Microsoft, etc...