[matthewowen]

i don't understand how you can hold these two beliefs at once.

if you believe that it is fundamentally unsafe to buy health products and makeup from aliexpress, then isn't it also reasonable to believe that aliexpress shouldn't sell it? there's a "people should be free to make bad decisions" counterargument, but as a society we've decided against that: it's the reason we have consumer protection laws.

put another way: if you made marketplaces accountable for selling dangerous items like this, you would push them out of the segments that are most dangerous.

[jsjddbbwj]

Having AliExpress check the safety of all of their products would increase the price of all of them substantially. That would me bad for me.

To make matters worse, the kind of girl who buys lipstick on AliExpress doesn't buy cheap Z80 clones or radios there, so she wouldn't come back to that site again once they take the lipstick down; only informed buyers would suffer the consequences. How's that fair?