• Cyborganism
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    231 year ago

    Wait… Ebay is merely a marketplace where people or vendors use the platform to sell their goods.

    Shouldn’t the individuals be sued?

    Or maybe it’s because they could be in another country, so they go after the platform itself for allowing such devices to be sold?

    • Vode An
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      1 year ago

      Going after the marketplace is a more efficient strategy than playing whack a mole with individual sellers.

      • Gormadt
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        261 year ago

        Also being a marketplace they do have a duty to make sure that people are not selling illegal items on their platform.

        Because if platforms didn’t could you imagine how bad the Internet would be for buying things.

        • Vode An
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          21 year ago

          I don’t disagree. I am generally in favor of keeping markets on a short leash. As you said, it could be a lot worse.

          • Gormadt
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            31 year ago

            Exactly, keeping markets on a shorter leash is also something I’m generally in favor of

          • 520
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            21 year ago

            As would the RIAA’s war on piracy. Despite the exhorbitant fines being handed down, I don’t believe they’ve made any profit from them.

        • Chetzemoka
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          31 year ago

          That’s a political bomb though. This accomplishes the same end goal and is a strong enough warning to prevent similar markets popping up in the future

          • @[email protected]
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            11 year ago

            Well they are illegal, although enforcement is up to the local jurisdiction. If you try to install these in California for instance, you will have a bad day and they can and will impound your vehicle.

      • AFK BRB Chocolate
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        41 year ago

        Agreed, but I hope they go after the sellers, too.

    • @[email protected]
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      101 year ago

      Merketplaces can be held liable for third party sellers merchandise as it’s ultimately up to the marketplace to chose what is allowed and prohibited to be sold.

      Imagine a marketplace allowed vendors to sell human slaves and the government tells that marketplace that is very much not okay stop it. If that marketplace continues allowing third party vendors to sell human slaves then that marketplace has now also broken the law along with the third party vendor and potentially even the purchaser depending on how the law was written.

    • sik0fewl
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      51 year ago

      I dunno, the article is pretty weak on details. Curious what comes of it.

    • @[email protected]
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      21 year ago

      I agree, hitting a couple of these sellers and manufacturers with multi-million dollar fines would be fucking great. They have to go onto X and complain to their drifting buddies that the only way to support Trump would be to bail them out of jail.