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If I order a collectors item XBox controller, is that an IT or high tech item? (Maybe I’m using it for Skype with patients)

What about a kid’s “computer” toy, or a fart noise button?

What about a fidget spinner? A stress relief toy for autistic kids? A fidget spinner incorrectly marketed for autistic kids?

They have 10’s of millions of items, and for each one where their answer is different than the court’s, they get fined $100,000 * number of times they ship it.

Of course they can’t open the warehouse under these terms. Perhaps elected officials need to step in and pass a law that will invalidate this ruling.



The point of the GP was that the actual order might not actually be this vague, which another comment [1] appears to corroborate.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22978228


The order specifically singles out Amazon categories for products. I am not a software engineer, but something along the line of:

> if item.category is not in authorized_categories then do not sell

Does not seem too hard to do.


You are completely ignoring my point: you can't go by a one-sentence summary in an article to infer that the Court's ruling on allowed items is vague. You'd actually need to look at the written deicision instead of spending your time pre-judging and coming up with a bunch of hypothetical examples.

Additionally, most goods sold are already classified as a certain type of item for regulatory purposes in the EU, so that work has already been done.




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