{"id":6029,"date":"2021-05-26T10:36:21","date_gmt":"2021-05-26T14:36:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technewsday.com\/?p=6029"},"modified":"2021-08-03T11:05:49","modified_gmt":"2021-08-03T15:05:49","slug":"d-c-sues-amazon-for-violating-antitrust-laws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/d-c-sues-amazon-for-violating-antitrust-laws\/","title":{"rendered":"D.C. Sues Amazon For Violating Antitrust Laws"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The District of Columbia, through Attorney General Karl Racine&#8217;s office, announced a lawsuit against Amazon for allegedly violating antitrust laws that prevent sellers from selling their products on other websites at lower prices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The lawsuit states that &#8220;Amazon&#8217;s actions constitute unreasonable and unlawful restraints of trade&#8221; and that &#8220;Amazon acted unlawfully to maintain or attempt to achieve a monopoly in the online retail sales market in the United States.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The lawsuit seeks a court order preventing Amazon from continuing such anti-competitive practices, along with fines, legal fees, and &#8220;restitution and damages for harmed consumers.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n<p>For more information, read the <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/2021\/05\/amazon-sued-over-policies-that-forbid-lower-prices-on-other-websites\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">original story<\/a> in Arstechnica.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington D.C. is accusing Amazon for unfair product pricing strategies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[212],"class_list":["post-6029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-companies","tag-amazon"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6029"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6029\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6061,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6029\/revisions\/6061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}