News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Some Dark Patterns Now Illegal in UK. Parent comment

Re:Some Dark Patterns Now Illegal in UK by lorddoig on Tuesday August 26, 2014 @06:00PM (#8229820)
Can you even begin to imagine what hell it would cause Amazon, at their scale, to be burdened with policing that? It would require a whole building full of Amazon compliance officers who won't always get it right - and when they don't they'd be liable which would cost more even more money and create ill feeling between Amazon and its customers as they'd be making assurances that they could not possibly keep (the story of every consumer protection law ever, btw.)

Seems to me the review system - by your account, not mine - is working just as intended.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Some Dark Patterns Now Illegal in UK by ZoFreX on Thursday August 28, 2014 @05:40AM (#8236539)
What is the burden on every smaller shop that operates in this country and manages to obey these laws? Without Amazon's economies of scale, it costs them far more per item than it would Amazon. Just because the absolute cost to Amazon would be huge doesn't make it unfair as they have a lot more money total, in fact it's completely unfair that only smaller companies have to deal with this.

If it genuinely isn't possible for Amazon to sell chargers and obey the law, then they should stop selling chargers. No-one's making them do it.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Some Dark Patterns Now Illegal in UK by gambiting on Wednesday August 27, 2014 @05:33AM (#8231376)
Well, they are obliged by law to make sure whatever they are selling is not counterfeit and is safe to use. And no, the law does not care how that is enforced - but I imagine that when they order a batch of chargers from China, someone could take a look at one and see if it's genuine or not?
[ Parent | on HN ]