First we have the Dr. Seuss publisher announce that six good Dr. Seuss books are "offensive" and they will stop publishing them. Then today we have Amazon announce that it will no longer sell them. We can fix this. Amazon is a monopoly, has most of the book selling market. Sherman anti trust act allows the government to break up monopolies. The US justice department has a whole anti trust division staffed with well paid lawyers. They could break up Amazon into two or three pieces. Divvy up the office buildings, the advertisers, the customers, the shareholders equally. Let the pieces compete with each other. One piece will decide they can make money selling Dr. Seuss, after all he dominates the Wall St Journal weekend reviews of books. Dr. Seuss usually comes in first in sales, beating out all the other books on sale all over the country.
They did this to the Standard Oil company about 100 years ago.
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