{"id":1228862,"date":"2023-09-26T19:31:48","date_gmt":"2023-09-26T19:31:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/radiofree.asia\/?guid=4523246566e63acc111ea284b32e8259"},"modified":"2023-09-26T19:31:48","modified_gmt":"2023-09-26T19:31:48","slug":"ftc-and-17-states-file-antitrust-lawsuit-against-amazon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2023\/09\/26\/ftc-and-17-states-file-antitrust-lawsuit-against-amazon\/","title":{"rendered":"FTC and 17 States File Antitrust Lawsuit Against Amazon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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. &ldquo;Freedom of commerce is a fundamental liberty of American democracy,&rdquo; declared Open Markets Institute executive director Barry Lynn in response to the suit.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/truthout.org\/articles\/ftc-and-17-states-file-antitrust-lawsuit-against-amazon\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/truthout.org\/articles\/ftc-and-17-states-file-antitrust-lawsuit-against-amazon\/\">Latest \u2013 Truthout<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;This is one of the most important antitrust cases in U.S. history,&#8221; said a supporter of the federal agency&#8217;s lawsuit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":613,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3673,12503,1077,8160,40467,11513,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1228862"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/613"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1228862"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1228862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1228863,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1228862\/revisions\/1228863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1228862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1228862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1228862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}