You seem to be breaking up my arguments into segments so that you can ignore the big picture.
A. Amazon controls almost 50% of market-share.
B. Amazon uses their platform data to determine which products vendors sell are high-margin, then replicates those products and sells them at a lower cost.
C. Amazon-branded products appear higher in search results, which eventually drive the original vendors out of business. Whether this is explicit, or happens by virtue of intimate understanding of Amazon's algorithms is irrelevant.
Individually, A, B, and C are not anti-competitive, but Amazon is doing A and B and C at the same time, which crosses into anti-competitive behavior. Technically, B & C together are enough to warrant anti-trust investigations.
A. Amazon controls almost 50% of market-share.
B. Amazon uses their platform data to determine which products vendors sell are high-margin, then replicates those products and sells them at a lower cost.
C. Amazon-branded products appear higher in search results, which eventually drive the original vendors out of business. Whether this is explicit, or happens by virtue of intimate understanding of Amazon's algorithms is irrelevant.
Individually, A, B, and C are not anti-competitive, but Amazon is doing A and B and C at the same time, which crosses into anti-competitive behavior. Technically, B & C together are enough to warrant anti-trust investigations.