Big tech is a threat to our country.

[Winehole23]

[Winehole23]

middleman defense showing cracks

Over the years, several customers have been injured by defective products they purchased on the site from third-party sellers, including one woman whose eye was blinded by a defective dog leash and another who was burned by a laptop battery. The case currently before the Texas Supreme Court involves a 19-month-old toddler who suffered permanent damage to her eso us when she ingested a lithium-ion battery that popped out of a knockoff remote control.


For years, Amazon has claimed that it is not liable in such cases since it functions as a middleman for sales made through its Marketplace platform.


The toddler’s mother purchased the knockoff Apple TV remote from a third-party seller called “USA Shopping.” After the battery burned her daughter, she sought to find out who was behind the Amazon storefront, discovering that it was run by one “Hu Xi Jie” out of Shenzhen, China. Neither the mother nor Amazon has been able to locate or contact Hu Xi Jie.

Lawyers for the child’s mother have argued that Amazon is liable for the defective remote since the site serves the same function as a physical retail store, which is to put products into the stream of commerce

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...jured-toddler/

[Winehole23]

THIS PROBLEM IS WAY TOO BIG TO FIX

Amazon’s lawyer argued that vetting products in advance of listing them on the site was impossible given the scale of the problem.

[pgardn]

THIS PROBLEM IS WAY TOO BIG TO FIX

I would bet they have already vetted products for safety.
You dont move that much material and not have some sort of leak or something that a worker finds and claims is a safety hazard.

[Winehole23]

I would bet they have already vetted products for safety.
You dont move that much material and not have some sort of leak or something that a worker finds and claims is a safety hazard.

Avoiding legal liability is also important, having vetting procedures cuts against that and profitability.

[Winehole23]

Facebook autogenerates pages for white power freaks and other friendly extremists.

Facebook’s groups problem hasn’t gone unnoticed within the company. Facebook’s own researchers warned top executives as early as August 2020 that 70 percent of the 100 most active US “civic” groups on the platform were “considered non-recommendable for issues such as hate, misinfo, bullying, and harassment.” One particularly large group with 58,000 members spread “enthusiastic calls for violence every day.”


Facebook’s stated desire to combat polarization has long been at odds with its quest to maximize engagement. In 2017, an internal task force found that reducing polarization on the site would also reduce engagement. The task force was soon disbanded, and most of its suggested fixes were shelved.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...-supremacists/

[SnakeBoy]

Ollyahgawky good or bad now?

[Winehole23]

Ollyahgawky good or bad now?

If you can start by answering your own question, we can have a conversation about that.

I won't hold my breath.

[daboom1]

[ChumpDumper]

[ElNono]

[daboom1]

[ChumpDumper]

MJT

[daboom1]

[Ef-man]

Was she going for a second round of sex and was tweeting about the erection of her boyfriend?

[ChumpDumper]

Was she going for a second round of sex and was tweeting about the erection of her boyfriend?

Qhris loves s if they're Republicans.

[ElNono]

still checking evil twitter...

[Ef-man]

still checking evil twitter...

Qchrisy still playing the innocent victim with bot-like behavior.

[daboom1]

[Blake]

middleman defense showing cracks

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...jured-toddler/

That's an interesting one. If it was sold at a Walmart brick and mortar, would Walmart be liable? I haven't ever heard that too be the case.

[Blake]

Hey Chris, remember when you said you were going to leave the site forever? What's the status on that?

[ElNono]

gothem

[boutons_deux]

AP email

Facebook pledged to suspend political donations, then quietly funneled $50,000 to GOP group pushing voter suppression laws

[Winehole23]

[Winehole23]

Reveal amassed internal injury records from 23 of the company’s 110 fulfillment centers nationwide. Taken together, the rate of serious injuries for those facilities was more than double the national average for the warehousing industry: 9.6 serious injuries per 100 full-time workers in 2018, compared with an industry average that year of 4.

https://revealnews.org/article/behind-the-smiles/