Influencers on Facebook, Instagram, Discord, Reddit, and TikTok are promoting Chinese ecommerce sites like Pandabuy, known for knockoffs, using affiliate links
I've seen teens praise the quality of each other's knock offs which is a new thing — https://www.wired.com/... Sarah Burstein / @design_law@mastodon.social : It's unfortunate that Wired seems to equate “fakes,” “knockoffs,” and “bootleg copies” with “counterfeits.” — https://www.wired.com/... (h/t @carnage4life) — Worse, the article seems to use the c-word in both the colloquial and the legal sense without distinguishing between the two meanings. …