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Were there actually a joint agreement not to compete for particular customers, there would be a case that it was a combination in restraint of trade.


Twitter doesn't do hosting, so it wouldn't 'compete' with AWS for customers? and AWS isn't a social media site?


> Twitter doesn’t do hosting, so it wouldn’t ‘compete’ with AWS for customers?

Sure, the place were an agreement of restraint of trade would be more simply possible would be something like Twitter/FB.

Though if you had a Twitter/FB pact and AWS was brought in and agreed to kick off Twitter/FB competitors that didn’t voluntarily join the Twitter/FB pact, AWS could be part of the scheme…

And a Twitter/AWS agreement alone along the same lines could be problematic, if Twitter alone had market power.


Except the lawsuit mentions AWS and twitter...not FB? I mean sure, we can come up with all kinds of scenarios but the probably have zero relevance to the case ?




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