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Same is true in the presence of law; there's just more bureaucracy.
More to the point: what constitutes power is different.
Summary: The YouTuber had his Amazon affiliate account canceled after 7 years without warning or evidence of wrongdoing. The reason given was that purchases made through his links were for personal use or made by friends and family, which he denies. He finds the timing suspicious as it came a week after he made a video criticizing Amazon for canceling a customer's account for a racist doorbell claim. He argues that t…
> He believes Amazon is becoming less accountable as it grows in power and treats customers worse. He's right. I have recent first-hand experience of them deleting reviews of counterfeit products. The emails say: "We investigated your concerns about product authenticity, and the information we have indicates that the product you received was authentic." I've tried posting a review a further 4 times, each time only me…
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I understand. Another reason I haven't pursued this (not like it would matter - I don't have millions of social media followers). The additional context here is she was yelling at me more than the driver and this was in a small Midwestern town where crime (and especially violent crime) is nearly non-existent. Unlike some of the incidents you hear about where there is physical violence there is a near-zero chance the…
The ban for selling GPUs I can't defend, but for the Lyft and Uber cases, I'm torn. Yes, companies are getting trigger-happy, but have you seen humanity lately? People are also trigger-happy and when triggered are becoming more and more belligerent and violent. As a company, for safety reasons you must be able to kick-out/ban them. People are freaking out in stores, public transport, airlines, everywhere. You don't w…
This is why I mentioned mandatory platform provided dash and interior recording. It's very clear that in many of these scenarios (linked Twitter feed, my story) there isn't anything resembling an actual review. However the driver's issue was reported all they could have possibly considered to make their decision is whatever they reported. For all I know they said she hit them, for example.
This of course goes the other direction. I was once in a Lyft where the driver had an associate (of some sort) clearly experiencing an overdose in the front passenger seat. She was slumped over, making gasping sounds. I calmly ended my ride early and my first call was to 911 to describe the car and the driver. Going in the app to report the driver was a remote second consideration.
Yelling isn't criminal, what a "reasonable person" would characterize as violence is. As I noted it wasn't even really directed to the driver and at no point did I consider it threatening to either of us. If violence had actually taken place I would have expected the police to show up (as they did in my OD story). If she had hit them (or gotten anywhere close to threatening) I would be the first person to back the driver's story to the police.
Like I said I woke up the next morning to an e-mail from Uber that was essentially "We got this report, the decision is final". Had I even had the opportunity to attempt to provide my version of events I'd feel a lot differently about this.
Trigger-happy is putting it mildly.
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You'll have to outbid the payments the tech companies have on the senators they own. You need more money than Vangaurd and Blackrock's A.L.A.D.D.I.N
Those bribes are depressingly low amounts. Just fly a SCOTUS out for a fun quarter-million vacation and their next completely original interpretation of the Constitution will be in your favor.
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The Chinese point system is exactly what this reminds me of. It is ironic that unrestrained capitalism actually ends in a variant of communism where it are the corporations, rather than the party, that rule society.
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This real-time slide into dystopia is going to take some weird turns along the way.
Whenever something like this happens it's worth looking at the entire scope, this is not as simple as Amazon banning the guy. You need to look at the steps that took place, someone had to actually make the call and have him banned. There was probably an email chain and this was the decision that they arrived to. Linking shitty things that happen to a person rather than some abstract corp gives the right perspective.…
Yep - we should never ever forget that companies are just groups of people who make decisions, and they should be accountable.
"racist trees", "racist doorbell", "racist photos"... my god, when will all this nonsense stop? When will the mass media stop feeding people with that crap? As a lesson, every single news company that writes about racism more than twice a year must be canceled from all the platforms out there. This shit is out of control and has damaged many people's brains. Or is that coming from politicians who love the "Divide & C…
> When will the mass media stop feeding people with that crap? They won't, and that's why I think we, as a society, need to move past journalism. That sounds like sarcasm, but it isn't. And I know what you're thinking- "oh but a free press is one of the legs of the tripod of society!" Well it was, decades ago. Now it's literally all tabloids and propaganda. It's time let it go. We have various tools that allow indivi…
But if that sort of thing is the main source of news, I think you'll find it would result in even more misinformation than journalism produces.
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> He believes Amazon is becoming less accountable as it grows in power and treats customers worse. He's right. I have recent first-hand experience of them deleting reviews of counterfeit products. The emails say: "We investigated your concerns about product authenticity, and the information we have indicates that the product you received was authentic." I've tried posting a review a further 4 times, each time only me…
It's amazing that if you had a site where 3rd parties uploaded copyright materials for download you would be held responsible. But Amazon can freely and in great measure host counterfeit trade mark infringing goods for sale and profit from it.
Only if you had knowledge of the infringing material, or if your site overtly encouraged its upload. Otherwise, as long as you comply with the DMCA you would be eligible for safe harbor. (I think.)
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Yep. I got a counterfeit product, reviewed it with photos showing it alongside the authentic version and the very obvious differences (like lack of branding). Rejected as "the information we have indicates that the product you received was authentic." This along with receiving so many low quality products that have glowing 4-5 star reviews has destroyed a lot of my trust in Amazon. I now order direct from manufacture…
This is going to be a huge problem in the medical/health vertical. It's one thing to get a BommyTahama pair of sunglasses, it's quite another to get counterfeit supplements that could cause injury.
I think there have been a few different noteworthy events where issues have popped up. I'll link to a couple of articles I've found on the topics.
https://themedicinemaker.com/business-regulation/amazons-fda...
https://www.sitejabber.com/resources/counterfeit-cosmetics-t...