[NickC25]

>Amazon should be liable for the products they sell on their market place. They should not be able to absolve themselves of all liability just because they're a "facilitator" of these marketplaces. They have the ability to manipulate reviews, manipulate what products you see in your search queries, etc. etc. They're culpable in some way as well - since theoretically, if they're manipulating search and reviews, then they must be vetting the products in some way, right?

Amazon also sells its own products on its marketplace, which kinda negates the whole "we're only a facilitator" message they are desperately trying to push.

Ebay is just a facilitator. If Amazon wants to just be a facilitator, it can stop spending money trying to copy top selling products via its Amazon Essentials line of goods. Amazon doesn't get to straddle the line and pick and choose what to call itself depending on which way the legal wind is blowing on a given day.

Amazon is the poster child of having their cake and wanting to eat it too, and using lobbyists and lawyers to get their way.