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How the Creator Economy Destroyed the Internet

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83 points ecliptik | 1 comments | 08 Dec 25 16:32 UTC | HN request time: 0.278s | source
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rectang ◴[08 Dec 25 18:32 UTC] No.46195878[source]▶
> Copycat Pirouette Skorts have been sold on Amazon, eBay, AliExpress, TikTok Shop, DHGate, Temu, Shein, and countless other fly-by-night storefronts that will seemingly disappear as quickly as they popped up.

Are there any moves afoot to adjust laws to make "marketplace" websites liable for the actions of sellers?

Illegitimate knockoffs would be less of an issue if you had to go to independent websites to find them.

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1. rtkwe ◴[08 Dec 25 19:44 UTC] No.46196689[source]▶
I'm not sure there's a way to do that, there's no real way for a platform to definitively know if you're selling legitimate items or not and sellers are legitimately allowed to resell any legit items they have bought so there's not even a definitive list of "who's allowed to sell product X" they could query to know.