Watching Hulu this evening: tons of ads against Senate bill S.2992, invoking scary-to-conservatives images of Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer, suggesting it’s a security problem vis-a-vis CHYYNA!!! and showing lots of small business owners’ scripted worrying about the effect it will have on them. So many obvious propaganda tells.

So according to Center for American Progress:

“People would likely enjoy e-commerce cost savings: Amazon’s market power in e-commerce has given it the power to charge high costs for sellers, which are passed on to consumers. A recent analysis from the Institute for Local Self-Reliance found that, “Using a variety of fees, Amazon now pockets a 34 percent cut of the revenue earned by independent sellers on its site … That’s up from 30 percent in 2018, and 19 percent in 2014.”41 These costs are passed onto consumers in the form of higher prices for goods bought on Amazon. In the near term, the bills prohibit rules that would force sellers to use extra services in order to compete effectively on the platform.

Lots of money at stake, and it’s ours.