What Next TBD: The U.S. vs Amazon Prime

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🗓️ 23 June 2023

⏱️ 26 minutes

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On Wednesday, the Federal Trade Commission sued Amazon, accusing the online giant of “tricking and trapping people into recurring subscriptions.” The complaint says Amazon “knowingly duped millions of consumers into unknowingly enrolling in Amazon Prime." With murmurs of a larger antitrust probe against Amazon just around the corner, how serious is this suit for the tech giant? Guest: Leah Nylen, antitrust reporter at Bloomberg If you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members get benefits like zero ads on any Slate podcast, bonus episodes of shows like Slow Burn and Amicus—and you’ll be supporting the work we do here on What Next TBD. Sign up now at slate.com/whatnextplus to help support our work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I made you think you was real.
0:02.0	My name is Caden Sinclair.
0:04.0	Some people call us American royalty.
0:06.0	We were Liars.
0:08.0	A new series on Prime Video.
0:10.0	We were happy. We wanted for nothing.
0:12.0	Based on the best-selling novel.
0:15.0	Something terrible happened last summer,
0:17.0	and I have no memory of what or who hurt me.
0:20.0	No one in my family will tell me.
0:22.7	When you're left for dead, you want answers. We were liars. New series, watch now, only on Prime Video.
0:33.7	Why don't you go ahead and tell me who you are and what you do?
0:38.9	Yeah, I'm Leon Island.
0:40.8	I'm Bloomberg's antitrust reporter.
0:44.5	How many times a day do you think about Amazon?
0:49.8	Probably, I mean, at least once, sometimes many times a day.
0:55.5	How many times a day do you think Lena Kahn thinks about Amazon?
0:58.5	Oh my God, probably a lot more than me. I mean, they have a lot about Amazon going on over there.
1:05.9	I called Leah because this week, the Federal Trade Commission, which Lena Khan chairs, sued Amazon,
1:13.4	saying the company tricked people into signing up for its premium service prime
1:17.8	and deliberately made it hard for them to cancel.
1:21.8	But the thing is, this is not the first fight between Lena Khan and Amazon.
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