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Reminds me of the lead paint in toy scandal during the late 2000’s.

https://money.cnn.com/2009/06/05/news/companies/cpsc/

Mattel lobbied for and helped write legislation that regulated themselves... and everyone else.

The laws ended up disproportionately hurting small toy makers while rewarding Mattel for their bad behavior.

https://reason.com/2009/08/31/law-passed-after-mattel-toy-sc...

When you realize Bezos also owns a newspaper, and journalists get paid to write articles praising this or that. Honestly, it’s enough to jade anyone at this point.

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parent spaginal 5 years ago

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