{"id":26390,"date":"2019-08-23T17:34:19","date_gmt":"2019-08-23T21:34:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=26390"},"modified":"2019-10-13T14:02:41","modified_gmt":"2019-10-13T18:02:41","slug":"amazon-has-ceded-control-of-its-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/23\/amazon-has-ceded-control-of-its-site\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon Has Ceded Control of Its Site"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Wall Street Journal<\/a> (via Christopher Mims<\/a>):<\/p>\n

In practice, Amazon has increasingly evolved like a flea market. It exercises limited oversight over items listed by millions of third-party sellers, many of them anonymous, many in China, some offering scant information.<\/p>\n

A Wall Street Journal investigation found 4,152 items for sale on Amazon.com Inc.’s site that have been declared unsafe by federal agencies, are deceptively labeled or are banned by federal regulators—items that big-box retailers’ policies would bar from their shelves. Among those items, at least 2,000 listings for toys and medications lacked warnings about health risks to children.<\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

Amazon’s struggle to police its site adds to the mounting evidence that America’s tech giants have lost control of their massive platforms—or decline to control them. This is emerging as among the companies’ biggest challenges.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n

See also: Passive Guy<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n

Previously:<\/p>\n