scrubbles,
@scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech avatar

You know I live in Seattle, and you’re right. It’s like a small hole in the wall operation, Jeff Bezos works out of a window serving up boxes of stuff.

It’s not like they own entire neighborhoods or dominate the skyline or anything.

Drusas,

As a Seattleite, I would expect you would be aware that Bezos hasn't been in charge for a while now.

-fellow Seattleite

Powderhorn,
@Powderhorn@beehaw.org avatar

Must suck to run a little shack surrounded by all those used car dealerships between Mercer and Denny. That hasn’t changed since the '90s, right?

scrubbles,
@scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech avatar

Nope still just as sad and rundown. It definitely looks the same every time I go down there, there isn’t always a new building going up for some large website.

Powderhorn,
@Powderhorn@beehaw.org avatar

Sweet! No doubt I can get some E-6 developed at Ivey Seright next time I’m in town.

Pat, (edited )

If amazon was solely a marketplace they may have an argument but seeing as they're arguing the content moderation and targeted advertising to kids, they seem to be forgetting they own twitch, a very large online platform that serves ads out the ass

Perry,
Perry avatar

I might be reading it wrong, but it seems however that the designation refers to specific platforms rather than the company as a whole.

From the list one can see that "Amazon Store" is specifically named, as well as Facebook and Instagram separately.

Web_Rand,

🤣ROTFLMAO🤣

Perry,
Perry avatar

Just to be clear, Very Large Online Platform is a legal designation that follows certain criteria, making the claim slightly less ridiculous than it might seem at first.

There is arguably some validity to whether Amazon as a retail platform actually fits the spirit of the law, but at the same time I find it absolutely laughable that they're complaining that they were somehow "singled out", seeing how both Alibaba and Zalando are also included on the list.

PascalSausage,

It’s actually three medium-sized online platforms in a trench coat.

renard_roux,

I recently saw someone suggest that America was just three corporations in a trenchcoat; so maybe it’s actually nine smaller corporations, in groups of three, each group in their own trenchcoat, and then those three groups get together in an even bigger trenchcoat 🤔🧥

lazynooblet,
@lazynooblet@lazysoci.al avatar

What are the 3

Master,

Apple, google and microsoft.

But there is another trenchcoat with Amazon, Tesla and Berkshire Hathaway

Umbrias,

It’s funny to me the lack of pharma, investing, oil, and defense contractors, in this list.

Powderhorn,
@Powderhorn@beehaw.org avatar

No wonder it’s so good at businessing. That Vincent, I tell you!

Mereo,

Amazon is just a regular mom and pop shop struggling to compete with more substantial establishments.

Fearofthefamiliar,

Just a tiny startup hoping to become profitable one day

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