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0 pointsiamnothere4mo ago0 comments

> in any other field if a product cannot be made safe for consumers, you just don't produce and sell it

I’ll keep this in mind the next time I pick up some acetylene or muriatic acid.

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Acetylene is being marketed to children as something fun to play with ?

They literally said dangerous products couldn’t be sold to consumers in general. Obvious nonsense or chainsaws would require a license. I am pushing back against the safetyist notion that unsafe products cannot or should not be sold to the public.

zzzeek4mo ago

A correctly manufactured chainsaw can be used safely by adults. Products like "MoonSoll and Magic Chems Fuel Bottles" [1], "Tesla Powerwall 2 AC Battery Power Systems" [2] and literally tens of thousands of other products listed at [3] have been determined that they can not be used safely by adults, and are literally taken off store shelves until the issues can be resolved. It is a normal, everyday occurrence that manufacturers are very motivated to not sell products that cannot be used safely, Hacker-Newsesque semantic nitpicking notwithstanding. If similar liabilities applied to software like Roblox (think "kids committed suicide due to interactions on Roblox" being held equivalently to "kids have been suffocated by this defactive crib"), there would not be a Roblox without effective moderation.

[1] https://www.cpsc.gov/Recalls/2026/Demlar-Recalls-MoonSoll-an...

[2] https://www.cpsc.gov/Recalls/2026/Tesla-Recalls-Powerwall-2-...

[3] https://www.cpsc.gov/Recalls

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zzzeek4mo ago

Acetylene is being marketed to children as something fun to play with ?

iamnothereOP4mo ago

zzzeek4mo ago

[1] https://www.cpsc.gov/Recalls/2026/Demlar-Recalls-MoonSoll-an...

[2] https://www.cpsc.gov/Recalls/2026/Tesla-Recalls-Powerwall-2-...

[3] https://www.cpsc.gov/Recalls

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