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It can also be passive: they're making money from it, the threat of lawsuits to counterbalance the money they're making seems to be low right now, so they just turn a blind eye to it.

I refuse to believe that a company with these values: https://www.amazon.jobs/en-gb/principles, a pretty thorough recruitment process, probably 100k engineers (including many, many data engineers) on their payroll, etc. can't do better about identifying fakes.

It's just not in their interest because $$$.



> It's just not in their interest because $$$.

Meh, I'd call that negligence. They're knowingly allowing harm to come to others, through putting in a token effort (CYA style) rather than instituting meaningful change.

And it's their marketplace, so they get to set the rules, and they have significant resources if they actually wanted to engage.




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