Jessica Corbett is a senior editor and staff writer for Common Dreams.
Economic justice advocates applauded on Tuesday as the Federal Trade Commission and 17 states filed a sweeping antitrust lawsuit against Seattle-based Amazon.com for illegally dominating the online retail economy at the expense of consumers. 'Freedom of commerce is a fundamental liberty of American democracy,' declared Open Markets Institute executive director Barry Lynn in response to the suit.
' Meanwhile, critics of the company joined Open Markets in celebrating the development—echoing praise for FTC in June, when the commission sued Amazon over its 'yearslong effort to enroll consumers into its Prime program without their consent while knowingly making it difficult for consumers to cancel their subscriptions.
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