overview for Blaze

In the suit, Amazon argues that the company should not have legal responsibility to recall and remedy consumers for unsafe products sold on its marketplace by third-party sellers. Amazon claims that it is just an intermediary and logistics provider for third-party sales, similar to a delivery service, not a distributor or retailer that has a legal responsibility to carry out recalls. The CPSC ordered Amazon to recall more than 400,000 unsafe products in July 2024, after more than three years of adjudication.

“Instead of demonstrating its commitment to consumer safety, Amazon has fought the CPSC every step of the way for more than three years, and now it’s going to court. The law is clear that Amazon is a ‘distributor’ in this case and must carry out a recall. It’s absurd to suggest that because a company hosts a marketplace online it should be exempt from sensible requirements that help get hazardous products out of people’s homes and prevent them from being sold. The court should reject Amazon’s arguments. Taking Amazon at its word would mean hazardous products slipping through the cracks, even when they are capable of injuring or killing people.”

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Bookwyrm.social, BookBrainz, OpenLibrary, etc. (feddit.nl)

submitted 19 hours ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

1 comments fedilink

cross-posted from: https://feddit.nl/post/30601987

Just here to shed some light on Bookwyrm.social, the Fediverse equivalent of Goodreads. I've been doing some more reading lately, and I like to keep track of what I read and also I like reading other's review, suggestions, etc. Now I boycot amazon and others big tech as much as possible, so for me Bookwyrm.social is the place to be. It's steadily growing I think, but I thought it deserved some more attention, therefor this post. Same goes for BookBrainz and to a lesser extend IA's Openlibrary. OpenLibrary is, among other things, a place where people catalogue book-metadata, and if a book is not on Bookwyrm.social yet, it can often be imported from OpenLibrary. Problem with OpenLibrary is that the data is often messy and there are a lot of duplicates. That's where BookBrainz comes in, the book-equivalent of MusicBrainz. They're not that big yet, but what they do very well is that they have got very clean data. I feel like BookBrainz has the potential to be the perfect source of data on books, for other apps to use as they please, similar to how MusicBrainz is already functioning. It just needs more contributors, but I'm sure it's steadily growing. I just started doing my part, adding the books I read on all three.

Would love to hear thoughts on these platforms, as well as other platform suggestion if you've got any.

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Open letter: ~100 EU companies urge EU lawmakers to take “radical action” to shrink the reliance on foreign infrastructure by fostering a so-called “Euro stack”. (www.theregister.com)

submitted 23 hours ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/27088837

[PDF] Letter.

Nearly 100 orgs plead for homegrown lifeline amid geopolitical tensions

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LibreOffice is a free, open-source office suite developed by TDF, based in Germany. (europe.pub)

submitted 1 day ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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cross-posted from: https://europe.pub/post/12592

Originally posted on Reddit

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Well done, Denmark (i.postimg.cc)

submitted 1 day ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Meditations - Medito Foundation - alternative app to Down dog in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Thank you for the additional context!

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47% of Danes are avoiding US products now (nyheder.tv2.dk)

submitted 1 day ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Meditations - Medito Foundation - alternative app to Down dog (meditofoundation.org)

submitted 1 day ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

6 comments fedilink

It's starting to become a bit ridiculous in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago

And I'm just going to copy paste what I put in another posts about crossposts

My personal stance on this is that

If rules, moderation policies and admin policies are similar, there should only be one community on a single topic while we have a userbase below 100k

This allows for [email protected] and [email protected] to coexist, as there is a reason for them to (different moderation policies). It's similar for [email protected] and [email protected], as those communities have different principles and perspectives on their topic.

This suggests to consolidate communities like [email protected] and [email protected]

Another recent example is

[email protected]
[email protected]
there is now a third community, [email protected]

These three communities have similar rules, similar moderation and admin policies. They should be consolidated. And I know this is a very controversial topic, but I made a longer post recently on [email protected] for people interested.

In summary, my main argument is that

even though subscribers can potentially subscribe to all communities on a topic
posters are only going to post to one community, because they want the conversation to happen with the most people in one place, which is not the case if you crosspost as the comments gets splintered across the different communities

To take a recent example

As a member of both communities, I find it a pain to have two similar communities even more so when both post the exact same content because it creates more noise in my feed and because it forces me to waste my time and energy deciding where I will read said duplicated content and maybe post a comment. The solution is obvious: I will unsubscribe from one (for the time being, I still follow the two communities).

https://jlai.lu/post/16318139/13038429

There is a natural tendency of "one community emerges as the main one" on several topics

If one community does not emerge as the main one, it's usually because two or more regular posters maintain both communities active by posting to their preferred community.

[email protected] vs [email protected]
[email protected] vs [email protected]
all the privacy communities that are active at the same time

So, my suggestions are to consolidate similar communities. This single decision will not make this platform similar to Reddit. On Reddit, you had no way to complain about power tripping mods, there were no public modlogs, and discourse criticizing the mods or the admins would get silenced.

Here, we have [email protected], and recent examples have shown that the community can actually resist power tripping: https://feddit.org/post/7025680/4263481.

If the mods of the consolidated community start to power trip, document this on [email protected] and reorganize on the alternative communities. If not, stay on that one community, to foster more active conversations and posts.