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I'm generally on the side of believing that Amazon is not legally responsible for what people do after buying things that other retailers sell them on their mar
by karaterobot 4y ago
I'm generally on the side of believing that Amazon is not legally responsible for what people do after buying things that other retailers sell them on their marketplace. That's a bad road to go down, and I'm afraid it would lead to unintended consequences if applied broadly.
I also do not believe that Amazon is headed by a cabal of cackling villains who want kids to die, because they make $2.39 every time one of them buys poison on their marketplace. Instead, I think they're a big company that has a bunch of regular people focused on a bunch of different goals, and not really paying attention to this kind of thing until it becomes an issue. Hanlon's razor, etc.
BUT, given the bad press, why wouldn't Amazon put high-purity Sodium Nitrite behind some kind of age verification? They do have that process in place already for other items. Why not override the (algorithmically-generated) "suicide bundle" with something else? I'm sure they've done that in the past, too. Why do they just not do anything, and instead allow themselves to get caught up in a lawsuit and confirm people's beliefs that they're cackling villains? Seems like an unforced error.