The USA's Federal Trade Commission and 17 state attorneys general have sued Amazon, alleging that Amazon "is a monopolist that uses a set of interlocking anti-competitive and unfair strategies to illegally maintain its monopoly power". The total list of things that piss off the FTC is long, so read their press release for a deeper summary (or the 172-page complaint in full if you're really keen), but the core of the the FTC's beef is that Amazon does a whole bunch of shifty acts that make life as a seller on their platform really difficult. Bias towards Amazon's own products, banishing products that are cheaper elsewhere to the end of search results, forcing sellers to cough up more and more fees to be eligible for Prime shipping, muddying organic search results with paid results and more.
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