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Re:FTC Brings First Case Challenging Fake Paid Reviews on an... by pessimizer on Tuesday February 26, 2019 @07:25PM (#19259783)
> People here seem to ascribe a level of omniscience to tech giants that I'm not certain they deserve.

I'd describe it as a level of basic knowledge about their own product. You don't have to be a god to analyze Amazon's data, especially if you're Amazon.

Re:FTC Brings First Case Challenging Fake Paid Reviews on an... by vonmoltke on Wednesday February 27, 2019 @08:40AM (#19263128)
Assuming you know what data to collect and store. That isn't a trivial task. Observability on a large and complex system like this is hard. I don't think it is reasonable to assume it's easy for Amazon, and thus their inaction is based on exploiting this bad behavior.