Amazon filed a long-awaited antitrust lawsuit against Amazon today.
, claiming the company tricked customers into signing up for Prime subscriptions and then made it hard to cancel them.
Amazon claimed that the FTC’s actions were out of line. “Today’s suit makes clear the FTC’s focus has radically departed from its mission of protecting consumers and competition,”David Zapolsky, Amazon's Senior Vice President of Global Public Policy and General Counsel. “The lawsuit filed by the FTC today is wrong on the facts and the law, and we look forward to making that case in court.”
The media’s narrative about the suit will likely frame it as a long-awaited title bout between Khan and Amazon. The FTC chair gained prominence by publishing a 2017arguing US antitrust laws fell short of adequately reining in the tech giant. That helped begin a national conversation about whether the nation’s anti-monopoly laws were prepared to handle modern Silicon Valley behemoths.
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