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I'm genuinely curious - can someone explain how Amazon has avoided litigation on this for so long?

• Despegar 7y ago
  If you're wondering about some weird social ill plaguing society from the tech industry, 99% of the time the root cause of it is Section 230.
  • dfsegoat 7y ago
    Section 230 of what code / title? https://www.ecfr.gov/cgi-bin/ECFR?page=browse https://www.ecfr.gov/cgi-bin/ECFR?page=browse
    • Despegar 7y ago
      Of the Communications Decency Act. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communications_Decency_Act#Section_230 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communications_Decency_Act#Sec...
• joering2 7y ago
  Who's gonna litigate them? When you hire tens of thousands of people around USA all of sudden bunch of politicians, lawyers and judges roots for you and wishes you all the best, each for different reason. I mean which prosecutor that ultimately answers in some manner to a mayor of a big city that his/her future depends of how many Amazon employees will get hired/fired, will shit in their own sandbasket and go after Besos? Sure, if you me or Joe Doe opens an online store and have 1% of counterfeit problem than Bezos currently has, you would be SWAT-teamed, locked in jail and probably without bail too, with your finances frozen so you barely can afford a lawyer. But that's corporate America. This is business and that's how things work here in grand scheme of things when you become too big to jail/litigate.