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How are you able to derive from the article's summary that this is vague? Beyond that, we all know that "vagueness" was just an Amazon pretext to force France

How are you able to derive from the article's summary that this is vague? Beyond that, we all know that "vagueness" was just an Amazon pretext to force France to allow them to operate unchecked, i.e. without providing the demanded protection and deliver any item.

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hedora 6y ago
If I order a collectors item XBox controller, is that an IT or high tech item? (Maybe I’m using it for Skype with patients) What about a kid’s “computer” toy, or a fart noise button? What about a fidget spinner? A stress relief toy for autistic kids? A fidget spinner incorrectly marketed for autistic kids? They have 10’s of millions of items, and for each one where their answer is different than the court’s, they get fined $100,000 * number of times they ship it. Of course they can’t open the warehouse under these terms. Perhaps elected officials need to step in and pass a law that will invalidate this ruling.
- Quanttek 6y ago
  You are completely ignoring my point: you can't go by a one-sentence summary in an article to infer that the Court's ruling on allowed items is vague. You'd actually need to look at the written deicision instead of spending your time pre-judging and coming up with a bunch of hypothetical examples. Additionally, most goods sold are already classified as a certain type of item for regulatory purposes in the EU, so that work has already been done.
- Vinnl 6y ago
  The point of the GP was that the actual order might not actually be this vague, which another comment [1] appears to corroborate. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22978228 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22978228
- touktouk 6y ago
  The order specifically singles out Amazon categories for products. I am not a software engineer, but something along the line of: > if item.category is not in authorized_categories then do not sell Does not seem too hard to do.

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hedora 6y ago

If I order a collectors item XBox controller, is that an IT or high tech item? (Maybe I’m using it for Skype with patients) What about a kid’s “computer” toy, or a fart noise button? What about a fidget spinner? A stress relief toy for autistic kids? A fidget spinner incorrectly marketed for autistic kids? They have 10’s of millions of items, and for each one where their answer is different than the court’s, they get fined $100,000 * number of times they ship it. Of course they can’t open the warehouse under these terms. Perhaps elected officials need to step in and pass a law that will invalidate this ruling.

Quanttek 6y ago
You are completely ignoring my point: you can't go by a one-sentence summary in an article to infer that the Court's ruling on allowed items is vague. You'd actually need to look at the written deicision instead of spending your time pre-judging and coming up with a bunch of hypothetical examples. Additionally, most goods sold are already classified as a certain type of item for regulatory purposes in the EU, so that work has already been done.
Vinnl 6y ago
The point of the GP was that the actual order might not actually be this vague, which another comment [1] appears to corroborate. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22978228 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22978228
touktouk 6y ago
The order specifically singles out Amazon categories for products. I am not a software engineer, but something along the line of: > if item.category is not in authorized_categories then do not sell Does not seem too hard to do.