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Originally Posted by pking36330
Wow! I'm actually 180 degrees out from what you assume....
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I in fact assumed the opposite (that you are a "free-marketeer") and this is why I made this statement.
Unethical business practices, such as surreptitious tampering with search results, or deleting reviews for no valid reasons, require a remedy, particularly for a business which controls a large share of the US online market. (Amazon't large share of the market is also the reason why one can argue that it is also a "public forum," since there may be no comparable alternative forums.)
These remedies are either the product of self-policing, or of policing by the government.
You obviously do not condone government intervention, and neither do I.
But "caveat emptor" is a really simplistic argument, and doesn't cut it in many such cases. If it did, we should also assume that all politicians are corrupt, and legalize bribery. Or, that shareholders should just accept, that management will govern a company in a manner most beneficial to such management.