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by fallingknife 1945 days ago
FB - Congress passed a law (before FB existed) exempting all companies that post user generated content. You may not like this law, but FB is not "evading" anything, and it is not a competitive advantage because section 230 applies to all companies in the industry.

Google - How does Google not have to worry about copyright? What exactly is their evasive behavior here?

Amazon - Until the rules changed in 2018, Amazon was following the same tax treatment that existed for mail order catalog sales decades prior to Amazon's existence. These same rules applied to other online retailers as well. They are not "evading" anything. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/supreme-court...

Uber - OK you have a point here. I'm glad they did it, but that doesn't change the fact that they did evade regulations.