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		chihuahua 11 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: What's Hiding Inside Haribo's Power Bank and Headp... In the past, Amazon didn't care about dangerous products until lots of houses had been burned down by them, so if they ban a product it must be really bad.

butvacuum 11 days ago [–]

They don't care about safety, life, or limb. Amazon didn't enforce the ban of literal suicide kits until legislation was in the works.

It's quite clear: until it threatens to blow away their "we're not an intermediary- We're a service provider." Smokescreen they don't care.

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