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Twilight of the Open Web

People vs Algorithms

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Amazon's Attack on Consumers

The FTC is investigating Amazon for allegedly privileging marketplace sellers that use their fulfillments as services. "I think this will be a total fail," says Peter Bergen, author of The Art of the Antitrust War. He thinks people who dislike Amazon mostly like it because there's got to be a cost to this out of an environment. And so it's strange to me that Amazon's being attacked but not Verizon or Comcast.

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