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Posted by jjp 9 hours ago

EU fines Temu €200M for allowing sale of illegal products(www.bbc.co.uk)
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Bolin-Weng_666 8 hours ago|
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petarvasilev 7 hours ago||
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pseudopolous 8 hours ago||
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lokar 8 hours ago||
I don’t understand, can you explain?
sham1 7 hours ago||
Racism. They seem to be irritated about the existence of migrants and member countries not being allowed to tread on their human rights.
lava_pidgeon 8 hours ago||
I disagree that the EU allows illegals to enter it's territory. There are many many prohibitive measures
Jerry2 7 hours ago||
The EU is only good at imposing massive fines and they like to regulate technologies they have not created and don't even host them.

TEMO will more than likely just pass the cost of this onto EU consumers.

OKRainbowKid 6 hours ago||
As an EU consumer, I appreciate laws and regulations that ban selling cheap junk that might burn my house down or poison my baby.

I take it you don't?

w4zz 6 hours ago||
In my limited experience not all countries do think like this.
tialaramex 6 hours ago||
It's a cultural thing yeah. Americans genuinely do on the whole think that their approach is better. The good news I guess is that if you're an American and you think "Well I don't" you can (at least for now†) just leave.

† If you lived in the German Democratic Republic (aka "East Germany") in 1950 you could literally just walk to West Germany, by 1961 all other borders are closed and fenced and in Berlin the Wall is up and people who try to escape are being executed routinely. This didn't happen instantly over night, but it took about a decade to go from routine to "Vast majority of people who attempt it are killed".

toast0 4 hours ago||
I mean, in America we have similar regulations. Toys aren't allowed to burn down houses or poison babies. You have to get dietary supplements if you want to poison babies.

Enforcement on individually shipped imports is hard regardless of where you are. Traditionally enforcement is through spot checks of bulk imports, and leaning hard on the importer who has a clear nexus.

joe463369 4 hours ago||
> TEMO will more than likely just pass the cost of this onto EU consumers.

Good. I want to know my AIEONUS phone charger isn't going to burn my house down and I'm more than happy pay a premium for that knowledge.

londons_explore 5 hours ago|
Did they actually sell $200M of illegal products, or is this a number plucked from thin air?
ericmay 5 hours ago||
Why would they need to sell €200 of illegal products to be fined that same amount?