• MagicShel@lemmy.zip
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    32 minutes ago

    The Supreme Court just publicly called for Congress to weigh in on who is responsible?

    What is this, solicitation of bribes? Because these big companies are going to try to swing the vote with cash.

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      48 minutes ago

      What this actually is: They have Verizon bribing them and the MPAA bribing them. They don’t want to shrug either one of them off, so they’ll let the United States citizens make the choice, you know, in good faith in all, so the next 20 years of bullahit they pull that’s against public opinion, They can just point back to this one time

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      4 hours ago

      The relationship is different though, BMW is not a service provider.

      A better analogy would be the phone company. Is it their job to monitor their customers conversation and determine the legality of what is being said?

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        I am sure BMW’s TOS has a sentence in there somewhere that they are your daddy once you sign up and this is binding forever. Looks like that means they are a service provider for life.

        Also… isn’t a subscription for heated seats means they provide a live service that we need to pay regularly to maintain?

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      6 hours ago

      I could see the Supreme Court rejecting this based on that idea… If you blame the manufacturer, that’s going to open up all manner of gun lawsuits, ammunition lawsuits, etc.