The Ghost of '99 wrote:The difference, FWIW, is that Amazon operates in an area that is almost entirely unregulated. Their tactics would have been investigated by anti-trust and competition authorities had they been a conventional retailer.
This will be another huge issue in a US-UK trade deal.
Digital platforms need some serious regulation. The Americans will likely block the UK from taking forward any plans that would involve regulating US tech giants.
Unless Elizabeth Warren becomes President, in which case the Americans will be putting serious regulation on them and force the UK to do the same.
That would actually be quite amusing, to see Boris and his cronies have to parrot the policies given by a radical Democrat President, in order to secure a trade deal.