Amazon refuses to take legal responsibility for consumer safety, Sues federal watchdog agency-Consumer Product Safety Commission;Argues it's not responsible for recalling items sold by third parties.
WASHINGTON, D.C — Consumer Reports (CR), the nonprofit and nonpartisan research, testing, and advocacy organization, today denounced a lawsuit filed by Amazon against the U.S.…
cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/27108135
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
Bookwyrm.social, BookBrainz, OpenLibrary, etc.
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
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”.
: Nearly 100 orgs plead for homegrown lifeline amid geopolitical tensions
cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/27088837
- [PDF] Letter.
Nearly 100 orgs plead for homegrown lifeline amid geopolitical tensions
LibreOffice is a free, open-source office suite developed by TDF, based in Germany.
cross-posted from: https://europe.pub/post/12592
Originally posted on Reddit
Thank you for the additional context!
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European tech industry coalition calls for 'radical action' on digital sovereignty — starting with buying local
A broad coalition drawn from across the ranks of Europe's tech industry is calling for "radical action" from European Union lawmakers to shrink reliance
cross-posted from: https://sopuli.xyz/post/23996234
The rallying call to put European tech first — backed by companies including Airbus, Element, OVHCloud, Murena, Nextcloud, and Proton, to name a few — follows the shock of the Munich security conference, where U.S. Vice President JD Vance tore into Europe like an attack dog, leaving delegates in no doubt that the post-War international order is in tatters and all bets are off when it comes to what the U.S. might do under President Donald Trump.
Key tech infrastructure that’s owned and operated by U.S. companies doesn’t look like such a solid buy, from a European perspective, if a presidential executive order can be issued forcing U.S. firms to switch off service provision or terminate a supply chain at a pen stroke.
“Imagine Europe without internet search, email, or office software. It would mean the complete breakdown of our society. Sou
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 !politics@lemmy.world and !politics@hexbear.net to coexist, as there is a reason for them to (different moderation policies). It's similar for !climate@slrpnk.net and !climatehope@lemmy.world, as those communities have different principles and perspectives on their topic.
This suggests to consolidate communities like !movies@lemmy.world and !movies@lemm.ee
Another recent example is
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 !yepowertrippinbastards@lemmy.dbzer0.com for people interested.
In summary, my main argument is that
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.
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 !yepowertrippinbastards@lemmy.dbzer0.com, 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 !yepowertrippinbastards@lemmy.dbzer0.com and reorganize on the alternative communities. If not, stay on that one community, to foster more active conversations and posts.
That's the theory we encourage on !fedigrow@lemm.ee, feel free to join us there to discuss this further.
You need to ask mods of the new communities to configure them to only allow their target language.
Most of the communities on jlai.lu only allow French.
It's starting to become a bit ridiculous
At least the !BuyFromEU@europe.pub admin said they would contact the mods of !buyeuropean@feddit.uk, hopefully some consolidation can happen: https://europe.pub/post/514
France and Germany, in joint collaboration, have developed a Google Docs alternative - and its awesome! (Netherlands are currently onboarded)
Interesting: Docs is the result of a joint effort lead by the French 🇫🇷🥖(DINUM) and German 🇩🇪🥨 governments (ZenDiS). We are always looking for new public partners (we are currently onboarding the Netherlands 🇳🇱🧀). Feel free to reach out if you are interested in using or contributing to docs...
Thanks, updated!
Europe have some quality sneaker brands
cross-posted from: https://europe.pub/post/7437
There are some amazing sneaker brands from Europe. Few of them are :
Adidas (Germany), Puma (Germany), VEJA (France), Salomon (France), Diadora (Italy), Karhu (Finland), Gola (United Kingdom), Superga (Italy), Hummel (Denmark), Munich (Spain)
Adidas and puma is obviously my fav but there are many others.
Please share your fav European brand for our sneaker heads :)
Originally posted on Reddit
European alternatives to Google's Gmail
cross-posted from: https://europe.pub/post/7501
What European email services do you use?
Please recommend other interesting email services by your experience.
I have switched from Google's Gmail to ProtonMail and kMail. I really like both, kMail (by Infomaniak) have very similar app interface to Gmail so you will get used to it very fast and also have big storage for free and very good offers for paid plans 👍🏼
Originally posted on Reddit
Seems like the admins would be open for cooperation https://feddit.nl/post/30482662/16071294
Seems great!
You may want to maybe start a dedicated community and/or Matrix space, it might be easier to organize than here
I kind of see where they come from too, but the way they present it just seems strange
Definitely the biggest threats around
Veklar, a French social media, apparently aims to protect their users from the Fediverse (?!)
First time I see this, not sure what they mean
Swedish company’s valuation jumped 24% in 2024 as ‘buy now, pay later’ market is projected to top $160bn by 2032
Koop Europese waar: kan ik dat? En wil ik dat wel echt? Translation in body
Importheffingen: Geen Tesla rijden? Geen Heinz-tomatenketchup meer? De iPhone afzweren? Hoever moet de consument gaan als deze een Buy European-leven wil leiden en Amerikaanse producten en diensten wil afzweren?
The translated article (author:
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Daan van Lent</ins>
):Import Tariffs No Tesla? No Heinz tomato ketchup? Swear off the iPhone? How far must a consumer go to lead a Buy European life and avoid American products and services?
The realization came when a Jeep Patriot with a Dutch license plate recently passed me on the highway and started driving right in front of me. Would I ever want to own that car? In this era of Trump's isolationist policies, would I want to drive around in an American car with 'Patriot' written on it?
As traffic sped along, my thoughts raced. What about other American products? Are they important to me? Could I do without them? If Americans are willing to sacrifice good relations for MAGA (Make America Great Again), could I contribute to MEGA (Make Europe Great Again)?
One conclusion I could already draw: I would never want such an American car. Too bad for Donald Trump, who has repeatedly complained that Europeans don't buy American cars, while American
I never really understood how it's managed. I guess Twitter allows you to see a tiny bit of content but then login walls you when you try to navigate
Creating a new platform would take time. Mastodon is there, the European Commission already has an instance: https://ec.social-network.europa.eu/@EUCommission
