oh for goodness sake -- there is no community on earth that doesn't have rules about "fashion"
You think low income people don't? Try wearing a skinny tie and cufflinks to a honkytonk in Oklahoma and see what happens.
Late in the story if you didn’t make it Turkers report seeing TOS violations like this on a regular basis and no clarity from Amazon about if and how it takes action
It seems clear that the TOS violations haven’t stopped so Amazon isn’t doing a great job stopping it.
I got the impression it's just super fun.
We're doing ad syndication! We sell space on websites! We have an innovative peer disruption space sorting alorithm optimizer!
Worth noting that the reporter on this story is a beat reporter who has been covering the Philadelphia tech scene closely for years now. She knows it like no one else.
1) They can encourage innovation in house by letting their own engineers share in licensing fees
2) They give a lot of stuff away
3) They go out of their way to get people to use their inventions in ways that are good for everyone concerned.
I'm a little rusty on the topic since this was a few months ago, but they made a pretty good argument that their measured approach is in the public interest.