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Re:Amazon must remove toxic school supplies, kids’ jewelry f... by Mirioron on Friday May 10, 2019 @05:36AM (#19876330)
Considering how haphazardly people demand regulation, I'm not sure reasonable people do understand the costs of regulation. Every time regulatory capture happens people are somehow really surprised and the excuse is always "we just wanted to help".

There are undoubtedly regulations that are vital, but there are many that cause silly situations that can have bad consequences. Also, it's not like regulation is guaranteed to even solve the problem in the first place.

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Re:Amazon must remove toxic school supplies, kids’ jewelry f... by Angostura on Friday May 10, 2019 @10:06AM (#19877804)
> There are undoubtedly regulations that are vital, but there are many that cause silly situations that can have bad consequences.

Mandating basic standards to ensure that products sold to children are non toxic seem vital enough. Whether this is the best way of managing that, is a different matter.

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Re:Amazon must remove toxic school supplies, kids’ jewelry f... by ptah on Friday May 10, 2019 @08:40AM (#19877144)
it does in europe and china
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