Rolling coal is the practice of tampering with a vehicle's emissions control system, causing it to spew black clouds of sooty exhaust.

Rolling coal is the practice of tampering with a vehicle’s emissions control system, causing it to spew black clouds of sooty exhaust.

      • zaph@sh.itjust.works
        111·
        1 year ago

        It’s illegal for imgur to host illegal images I can see why eBay would be responsible for people selling illegal items.

      • Echo Dot@feddit.uk
        2·
        1 year ago

        Sort of. They essentially have to be given the opportunity to take corrective action but if they don’t then they get fine. Or indeed other things depending on the severity of what’s happening.

        See Reddit and all the subs they were eventually forced to shut down.

      • RubberElectrons@lemmy.world
        2·
        1 year ago

        To a point, I suspect that applies to speech things, not necessarily physical items.

        But that’s a good question, I don’t know where the line lies.

        • Dym Sohin@lemmy.world
          2·
          1 year ago

          the line lies where you start harming other people (and their habitat), that’s literally the definition.

          your freedom ends where my freedom begins

          • Echo Dot@feddit.uk
            2·
            1 year ago

            Yeah but what if I’m an idiot redneck then other people aren’t allowed freedoms. Only me.

          • RubberElectrons@lemmy.world
            1·
            1 year ago

            Hmm. While I agree generally, your response seems a little vague. Definition of…? Freedom?

            I’m saying I wonder where, formally, a company goes from being an information platform, to something else. That’s the very point at which ebay started becoming liable for what people did on their systems.

            They’re not just hosting pictures, they’re selling real-world items to circumvent laws in a visibly annoying way. People in CA get away with uncovered high intensity off-road aux lights because nobody’s really abused them.

            Coal-rollers like being obvious, stinky dickheads, hence the crackdown on both sales and installations.