Amazon must remove toxic school supplies, kids’ jewelry from US marketplace

Re:Amazon must remove toxic school supplies, kids’ jewelry f... by Mirioron on Friday May 10, 2019 @05:31AM (#19876306)

So we should just ignore the long list of cases where it has happened, because This Time It Will Be Different?

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Re:Amazon must remove toxic school supplies, kids’ jewelry f... by matt4077 on Friday May 10, 2019 @05:36AM (#19876332)

No, use it when appropriate. Here, it isn’t, because:

- this settlement applies to Amazon only, not any competitor. That doesn’t fit the usual mechanism of using regulation to shackle competition

- regulatory capture also refers to a social mechanism, where regulators become friends with the industry because they spend so much time together etc. That doesn’t fit too well here, because a state attorney’s office is far more diversified than, say, the FAA.

- the points in my initial comment, which you just ignored

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Re:Amazon must remove toxic school supplies, kids’ jewelry f... by Mirioron on Friday May 10, 2019 @06:23AM (#19876514)

I apologize, I was talking specifically about this:

>This supposed “insight” is on its way to become just another tired meme.

On the other hand, people were explicitly talking about regulation, which I took to mean as a wider-reaching thing than just this agreement Amazon made. In this specific case, Amazon is basically acting like the government for the sellers.

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