
We've heard from third-party sellers again and again during the course of the investigation that Amazon is the only game in town.
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We've heard from third-party sellers again and again during the course of the investigation that Amazon is the only game in town.

the evidence we've collected shows that Amazon is only interested in exploiting its monopoly power over the e-commerce marketplace to further expand and protect this power.

About 37 percent of those sellers rely on Amazon as their sole source of income.

It seems to me that it's not for Congress that legislates to toss all of our antitrust laws...

Isn't it true that small businesses have no real option but to rely on Amazon to connect with customers and make online sales?

And you said that you can't guarantee that the policy of not sharing third-party sellers' data with Amazon's own line hasn't been violated; you couldn't be certain.

don't you agree that these articles viewed by millions on your platform will cost lives?

the problem is Facebook is profiting off of and amplifying disinformation that harms others because it's profitable.

I think these examples unfortunately, Mr. Zuckerberg, are just the tip of the iceberg.

you have a responsibility to remove harmful lies from your platform, correct?

Why should Facebook or any other platform be different?

the most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theater and causing panic.

the more engagement there is, the more money you make on advertising.

Allowing this misinformation to spread can lead to violence, and, frankly, I believe it strikes at the very heart of the American democracy.

We need to ensure the antitrust laws first written more than a century ago work in the digital age.

Why don't we just let the First Amendment work? That's all we're asking.

These companies, as they exist today, have monopoly power. Some need to be broken up. All need to be properly regulated and held accountable.