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Re: Show HN: Pls Fix – Hire big tech employees to appeal account suspensions

#31
There is a big difference between helping a friend or acquaintance just being nice to doing something for money.

Once you add money into something, there is a whole level of scrutiny and legal and ethical implications.

Like others have been saying, this is the type of thing that will get you fired immediately. You are not allowed to take your internal access and go into business for yourself selling it.

Re: Show HN: Pls Fix – Hire big tech employees to appeal account suspensions

#33

Seems insane. Surely every single company would fire you for doing that. If you put this in its proper term it is "corruption" and you should definitely worry about the legal implications of doing this.

Agreed. It's based on accepting personal payment to spend company time and resources doing something other than what the employer wants. Sounds like low-key bribery to me.

I imagine they're aware of this. The FAQ section states that employees are kept anonymous, but also says they verify if it's really a Google employee by sending an email to their google.com email address, which Google can of course see.

Re: Show HN: Pls Fix – Hire big tech employees to appeal account suspensions

#34
For budgeting purposes, I'm trying to amortize the cost of freespeech. Twitter keeps it simple, free speech is $8/month there. How much do you think I should budget monthly/yearly for account suspension appeals? Do you plan on offering a subscription option?

Re: Show HN: Pls Fix – Hire big tech employees to appeal account suspensions

#35
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Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'd love the anecdata on what type of commenter you were.

Almost never posted links/text submissions, but daily comment-discussions to the tune of 524k comment karma. Everything done on one account except for some resume-review throwaways. Interestingly "new" Reddit shows everything on my user-page as [Removed], but on *cough* proper Reddit you can still see content, although if you try following a permalink you'll see (or rather not -see) that it's shadowbanned. (In some c…

Politically interested, Deus Ex, Birds Aren't Real, could read and write beyond cat memes — starting to see why they didn't "want yer kind around" there!

Re: Show HN: Pls Fix – Hire big tech employees to appeal account suspensions

#36

There's an old joke(?) where a guy yells to his neighbor, "Sam! My house is on fire! Quick, who do you know at the fire department?"

This seems too apply to healthcare and legal matters in most of the US as well.

Re: Show HN: Pls Fix – Hire big tech employees to appeal account suspensions

#38
Maybe the folks at these companies writing the corny AI that bans people for posting pictures of cups and flowers, are the same ones getting kickbacks for fixing the problem?

I’m sorry, I just can’t help but be cynical about this. These platforms have next to zero actual customer support, the AI inmate is running the asylum and the users suffer the most.

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