It turns out that all that cringeworthy toadying to Donald Trump couldn't save Jeff Bezos from Trump's FTC.

Amazon just got slapped with a historic $2.5 billion penalty for running a subscription racket that would make a timeshare salesman slink away in embarrassment. The company trapped 35 million people in Prime subscriptions through a manipulative sign-up process, and made canceling harder than getting a call returned from the DMV.

Bezos' own employees referred to the scheme as "an unspoken cancer." From the FTC's statement: 00:00/09:18 10

The FTC has charged Amazon and several Amazon executives with knowingly misleading millions of consumers into enrolling in Prime, violating the FTC Act and the Restore Online Shoppers' Confidence Act (ROSCA). The FTC alleged Amazon created confu

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