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Re:Amazon disallows pointing out paid reviews by ardy42 on Thursday December 17, 2020 @06:34PM (#25461926)
> The number of humans available to perform daily investigations versus the total number of products sold makes this most decidedly not "easy".

Only if you're taking the blinkered tech mindset that employing people to do anything is hard. Amazon employs 1.2 million people [1], and has people employed that literally touch every single physical items it ships at least once. Every time you contact them you talk to one of their thousands of customer service agents. It's totally easy for an organization like that to staff a compliance department to investigate policy violation complaint.

[1] https://www.yahoo.com/now/amazon-projects-strong-holiday-sal...

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Re:Amazon disallows pointing out paid reviews by ksk on Friday December 18, 2020 @01:13AM (#25464377)
That is completely absurd. I too can "touch" tens of thousands of packages a day. That doesn't mean I can perform compliance on tens of thousands of customer complaints per day. You are simply asserting it is easy without providing actual evidence of how they would achieve this. Sorry, I don't see anything remotely logical in your comment that I can respond to.
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