“Two choices one” will become increasingly useless.
For China’s e-commerce history, November 5, 2019 may be a day of intense color.
Yesterday, according to 澎湃新闻, Jingdong’s previous attention to Tmall “There has been a new change in the lawsuit. has a lot of competition, and the two major e-commerce companies have applied to the Beijing High Court and requested to join the lawsuit as a third party.
Jingdong, Jieduoduo, and Vipshop are all e-commerce platforms that the industry regards as “Tencent”. Ali’s biggest rival, Tencent, is an important shareholder of the company; the three are also under varying degrees with Ali. Taobao Tmall has a market competition relationship, and has repeatedly accused Tmall of coercing brand owners to choose one. According to the relevant litigation materials, on September 12 this year, Jingdong submitted an application to the Beijing High Court, requesting to notify Vipshop, and fight more as a third person to participate in the lawsuit; on September 26, Vipshop and the fight are more and more On the same day, he submitted an application to the Beijing High Court and requested to join the lawsuit as a third party.
In the course of this case, “Tengsanjia” showed an unprecedented degree of tacit understanding. Obviously, they hope to use this law to curb the choice of e-commerce platform in judicial precedent.
Is it better to choose one?
On the morning of the same day,The State Administration of Markets was held in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province.Regulate the administrative guidance forum for network business activities“, convene more than 20 platform companies to participate in the conference, pointing out the outstanding problems in the recent network business activities, Ali, Jingdong, Jieduoduo, and Vipshop will be listed companies. At this symposium, regulators regard the choice of competition between platforms as the primary issue, and pointed out that the “two-in-one” and “exclusive transaction” behaviors in the Internet field are prohibited by the “E-commerce Law”. Violation of the “Anti-Monopoly Law” and “Anti-Unfair Competition Law” and other laws and regulations.
Some people also pointed out that “two choices” violates the law and violates which law, and should not be judged by the administrative supervisor. This is the responsibility of the judicial category.
In fact, the “E-commerce Law” was released last year and was implemented on January 1 this year. It has not been tested by sufficient judicial practice, and there are not enough jurisprudence to define the “two in different situations.” Choose one of how to violate the law. Here