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A lot of people complaining this is a stupid law, but if you substitute dealership with startup, manufacturer with Amazon, and cars with managed service running on AWS, then maybe it’s more relatable?

In general though, I’m always elated to see sovereignty of native nations.

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In order for that scenario to be an issue, I'd need to have made an agreement with Amazon to sell AWS out of a building and then Amazon decided to open up an Amazon AWS store in the strip mall 2 roads over, right?

Think what they're really protecting here is that dealerships must house, maintain, and purchase a lot of very expensive merchandise (vehicles) and if a more "official" distribution channel popped up in town, that'd hose dealerships that have invested a lot in a particular brand(s).

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