We’ve been looking the other way while a power-hungry company with monopoly power is holding American small businesses hostage. Amazon’s anti-competitive marketplace is a trap which many of our nation’s small businesses rely on to sell their products. Behind the scenes, Amazon takes data from the small businesses selling on its online marketplace and uses that data to create similar, often lower-quality products which show up prominently in Amazon search results, while the original small business product disappears deep into the search results.