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DEA's fault."their responsibility as regulated entities to comply with the recordkeeping, identification, and reporting requirements of the Controlled Substances Act as it relates to the distribution, importation, and exportation of pill press equipment" https://t.co/cEGgSP5emX https://t.co/jJGpfroRE1
Ebay's draconian policy may literally be due to their hands being tied via gov' regulation (combined w/ Kafkaesque policies regarding listing). It may be somewhat out of their control.If anyone following me is interested in writing a story about this...https://t.co/Q9HS5CnQgI
Having done some deep dives into the resale industry thru an interest in online stores and drop-shipping, I can say that people run into this kind of B.S. bureaucracy all the time. https://t.co/Aphzel3CokBut this case seems particularly assinine.https://t.co/RSZBJHExnt
the most fucked up thing about this is all the cops in the replies who are scolding her for like... making a living selling on ebay, or for not somehow magically knowing that she's not allowed to sell this thing (as if they'd have had a clue lol) https://t.co/ye3qOm2J0C
Imagine being ebay, who has the DEA breathing down their neck because you helped someone sell a non-functioning antique cast iron press that is near 200 years old.https://t.co/WbIbK3ZwOJ
And then ebay's automated flagging system errantly flags the same listing 3 times... and triggers a no-tolerance for drug paraphernalia policy.Man, I thought youtube automated strikes were bad. This is horrible.https://t.co/e25MarGNhi
Meanwhile, the actual bad actors are playing a cat-and-mouse game to try to sell things on that market and not get caught.The DEA is going to keep putting pressure on this space until it breaks, as the runaway AI arms race continues to acc/eleratehttps://t.co/6aJiiePp0Y
@chaosprime @grandwaz000 Similar stuff happening in most places that use reputation systems (amazon, ebay), because they are inherently game-able.There is a lot of money sloshing around in the dark-markets being put to competing against AI fraud detection.Accidentally a GAI?https://t.co/Q8iTO84bjf