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Re: Someone has stolen my Instagram account

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Post by ayewo »

jhardy54 wrote: post #148
renewiltord wrote: post #120

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Users here will believe any conspiracy theory so that's not really a high bar. I'm serious. There was that massive 2000 comment thread the other month about some big company doing something evil and then it turned out they didn't do it. Everyone who was right and informed in the original thread was greyed out by users here.

> There was that massive 2000 comment thread the other month about some big company doing something evil and then it turned out they didn't do it. Can you link to this? Not trying to be meta, I just don't believe random claims on the internet without any evidence.

I just posted links as a sibling comment to yours although none of the links contain a 2000 comment thread.

Re: Someone has stolen my Instagram account

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Post by nrmitchi »

renewiltord wrote: post #120
WORLD_ENDS_SOON wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

An interesting aspect to this story is that although there's no real evidence that a Facebook employee was involved, it still seems like a believable explanation to many readers including many commenters here. If a company's customer support is so bad that no one can tell the difference between being hacked and being abused by a rogue employee, does it actually matter what happened? I guess that it matters to the ori…

Users here will believe any conspiracy theory so that's not really a high bar. I'm serious. There was that massive 2000 comment thread the other month about some big company doing something evil and then it turned out they didn't do it. Everyone who was right and informed in the original thread was greyed out by users here.

To be fair in that situation, despite the fact that it turned out that Apple didn't actually do the thing in question, it was explicitly in their developer agreement that they were entitled to.

Something is less of a "conspiracy theory" when there is explicit evidence written down in a contract that supports it.

Re: Someone has stolen my Instagram account

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Post by daveFNbuck »

some1else wrote: post #63
ipsum2 wrote: post #7

There's no evidence to back the user's claims. This sounds like "Hey my dad works at Xbox and will ban you". There are other ways to compromise an Instagram account, like sim swapping ( https://krebsonsecurity.com/2018/05/t-mobile-employee-made-u... )

Here's a screencap of Philip Kaplan's newsletter from 2017 where he claims a friend at Instagram helped him get @DistroKid, which was registered but inactive: https://i.imgur.com/9mNY7lJ.png

That's not necessarily evidence of rogue employees being able to steal accounts for their friends. That may just mean that they had a friend at Instagram that helped them trigger the official process to delete an inactive account and give the name to someone who plans to use it.

Re: Someone has stolen my Instagram account

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Post by scrozart »

Kapura wrote: post #16

I think this is indicative of the biggest problem we have had with social media: there is no legalism here, just "codes of conduct" that companies and users both willfully ignore. If your handle gets sold by some facebook employee to a rich kid in LA, what recourse do you have? I don't know what laws this would break (maybe some broad definition of fraud? I Am Not A Lawyer) so it's not like this person has a slam dun…

Interestingly, this is the same issue we're seeing in the Senate: in the void where formal rules of procedure should ecist, we're left with 'traditions' built entirely on the shaky premise that everyone is acting in good faith.

Re: Someone has stolen my Instagram account

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Post by xwdv »

There is no reason here to believe the victim is telling the truth.

He could have simply grown tired of the Danny username, because of the constant spam it gets, and decided to cash in on it in exchange for some internet fame.

I assure you no Facebook employee would do something like this, an audit would clearly show what happened and that employee would be terminated quickly and probably face legal repercussions.

Don’t believe everything you read.

Re: Someone has stolen my Instagram account

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Post by antihero »

lightgreen wrote: post #85
apkallum wrote: post #8

It's sad and upsetting, but when will people learn that Facebook, Google et al do not care at all about individual users? Their model simply does not factor in the worries of a single user. (Worse is how they want to propagate the idea that software should be free and of highest quality, thus preventing any communal attempts at creating different models.) I advice everyone who has an account to at least download thei…

> when will people learn that Facebook, Google et al do not care at all about individual users? When will people learn, not just Facebook, Google et al, but no large company cares about individual users? Coca-Cola, Delta Air Lines, Ford, Unilever, Visa, Walmart do not care about individual users. Not because all of them are bad, but simply because they physically cannot deal with every complaint. Even worse, when the…

When will people learn that capitalism literally doesn't give a shit about people.

Re: Someone has stolen my Instagram account

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Post by scarface74 »

Kapura wrote: post #16

I think this is indicative of the biggest problem we have had with social media: there is no legalism here, just "codes of conduct" that companies and users both willfully ignore. If your handle gets sold by some facebook employee to a rich kid in LA, what recourse do you have? I don't know what laws this would break (maybe some broad definition of fraud? I Am Not A Lawyer) so it's not like this person has a slam dun…

Do you

A) Trust the competence of the government to understand the nuance of technology to not pass a law that takes into account all of the Nintendo’s consequences. During the dog and pony show when the house had the 4 tech CEOs to testify, one representative asked Zuckerburg about Twitter’s policies.

B) The impartialness of judges, prosecutors and regulators? Trump is now trying to get a law passed because he didn’t like Twitter’s policies. Would judges appointed by the current administration be more likely rule in favor of “Planned Parenthood” or”Black Live Matters” if they both made a claim over @blm?

As far as a third party. I would much rather have an independent non profit set up and FB, Twitter guarantee funding for them over 10 years and they do binding arbitration. They woukd be hopefully better informed.

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