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by PowerElectronix 35 days ago
Not the same case. If you get a bomb on a ups package, that's not UPS' fault.

But if you tell UPS someone is using them to send bombs to people, and they don't act on it in the least and even look like they are shielding bomb senders, then it starts being their fault a little bit, doesn't it?

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What if there are one or two bomb senders out of the millions of people sending normal packages, and you have hundreds of thousands of false “tips” that are actually just harassment campaigns? Do you cut off service to the victims just in case? What if you can’t tell what half of the packages even are? Mystery mechanical parts and circuits?
But in this case, all UPS was doing was delivering flyers for the bomb-makers, not delivering bombs.
How are they “shielding bomb senders” though? Because their marketing static page was hosted through cloudflare? Taking that down wouldn’t have changed anything here either.