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I think it's better to try and educate people not to rely on reviews than to make "fake" reviews illegal. Lots of wasted resources in enforcement, and tons of w

I think it's better to try and educate people not to rely on reviews than to make "fake" reviews illegal. Lots of wasted resources in enforcement, and tons of ways to get around it allowing scammers to take advantage of naive consumers that think a law helps them.

davidguetta 3y ago
It's not a so bad argument but honestly a few high profile case could have a nice chilling effect on the thousands of scammers on amazon
vorpalhex 3y ago
It's called "deceptive business practices" because you're lying, in exchange for money, and pretending to endorse a product while not declaring you've been paid to do it - which is already prohibited.
version_five 3y ago
I'm amazed (or saddened) but not surprised at how averse people are to the idea of people thinking for themselves. Real life is not a computer, you can't just make rules and have them automatically work.
- anigbrowl 3y ago
  Nobody is 'averse to thinking for themselves'. But there are millions of scientific and economic decisions made every day and it's unrealistic to expect everyone to fully vet all of them. Additionally, stupid people are gulible and easily preyed upon by the unscrupulous. It's not unreasonable to delegate product oversight to a government commission, whose opinions consumers can choose to seek/abide by, or not.
- oehpr 3y ago
  How am I supposed to select a decent widget from the market? Buy them all? Think really hard about it? I do not understand your position at all.
- ClumsyPilot 3y ago
  I am amazed (or saddened) but not surprised at how averse people are to the idea of people cleaning after themselves. Why do people expect a functioning sewage system, instead of traking their poop to the ocean themselves? Why do they expect the beach to be free of excrement, instead of cleaning it themselves? Why do they expect a recycling dystem to actually recycle plastic instead of defrauding them and dumping it in malasia? Well, then they also expect the reviews to be non-fraudulent?
ezekiel68 3y ago
Hahaha Ha Ha Haha. Well, each year (in the US, at least) a fresh batch of aroun 4 million people turns 18 years old. Even if every one of them in a given year was completely convinced by this effort, that would leave the work undone for the inexorable flow of future young adult cohorts. I reckon all you've got to do to pull this off is to commandeer one of the two dominant political parties and hoist your educational agenda to the top of its political platform. You'll need to be super diligent to ensure that this influence extends down through the state, county, and municipal governments and is effectively implemented at all the local school districts. Not quite sure how to extend this to home schools. But otherwise, this is a splendid idea.

davidguetta 3y ago

It's not a so bad argument but honestly a few high profile case could have a nice chilling effect on the thousands of scammers on amazon

vorpalhex 3y ago

It's called "deceptive business practices" because you're lying, in exchange for money, and pretending to endorse a product while not declaring you've been paid to do it - which is already prohibited.

version_five 3y ago

I'm amazed (or saddened) but not surprised at how averse people are to the idea of people thinking for themselves. Real life is not a computer, you can't just make rules and have them automatically work.

anigbrowl 3y ago
Nobody is 'averse to thinking for themselves'. But there are millions of scientific and economic decisions made every day and it's unrealistic to expect everyone to fully vet all of them. Additionally, stupid people are gulible and easily preyed upon by the unscrupulous. It's not unreasonable to delegate product oversight to a government commission, whose opinions consumers can choose to seek/abide by, or not.
oehpr 3y ago
How am I supposed to select a decent widget from the market? Buy them all? Think really hard about it? I do not understand your position at all.
ClumsyPilot 3y ago
I am amazed (or saddened) but not surprised at how averse people are to the idea of people cleaning after themselves. Why do people expect a functioning sewage system, instead of traking their poop to the ocean themselves? Why do they expect the beach to be free of excrement, instead of cleaning it themselves? Why do they expect a recycling dystem to actually recycle plastic instead of defrauding them and dumping it in malasia? Well, then they also expect the reviews to be non-fraudulent?

ezekiel68 3y ago

Hahaha Ha Ha Haha. Well, each year (in the US, at least) a fresh batch of aroun 4 million people turns 18 years old. Even if every one of them in a given year was completely convinced by this effort, that would leave the work undone for the inexorable flow of future young adult cohorts. I reckon all you've got to do to pull this off is to commandeer one of the two dominant political parties and hoist your educational agenda to the top of its political platform. You'll need to be super diligent to ensure that this influence extends down through the state, county, and municipal governments and is effectively implemented at all the local school districts. Not quite sure how to extend this to home schools. But otherwise, this is a splendid idea.