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Something like that does exist for Google account access problems - you can pay a few dollars (which also ties you to a presumably-authenticated credit card, and so helps authenticate you to Google) for an expedited response.
Never heard of it. Can you share some link please?
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If the new owner is imposter trying to be the old owner, it would be identity theft and fraud. If it's just giving the handle to someone else there is nothing. If you don't pay for a account, you don't usually own it unless there is something I'm missing. If you want to own your identity in the internet, get a website you own and don't rely on shady social-media networks that give you something free.
Platforms charging $1/year for a social media account seems like a reasonable solution to a number of problems.
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This is an extremely reductive. Temperature or gravity are not composed of people, who have the ability to make change within the system they comprise.
Let me rephrase. Too high or too low temperature environment can hurt people. People with a soldeing iron can hurt people. People putting other people in the fridge can hurt people. Just temperature is not something which can do anything to anyone. Capitalist companies, people living in capitalism, governments under capitalism, taxes and so on may be good or bad for people. But saying "capitalism does not give a shit…
If you want to be pedantic, you can say that the proper phrasing would be something like "socialism is an economic system whose defined goals are people's wellness", "capitalism is an economic system whose defined goals have nothing to do with people's wellness (they are profit for the owners of capital, and perhaps innovation)". But "caring for" is obvious shorthand for this.
You can, of course, say that individual actors living under any of these systems may or may not care about the people, and that's true. But the system itself may be designed with or without the people in mind, and different systems fall on different sides of this idea - for better or for worse.
I work at Instagram and there's literally zero chance of this happening. I work on the backend, so I know the kind of tools or logging we do. If in the chance this happens remotely, like 1 in a million chance, the employee will be fired like instantly. I can't believe a random tweet with a screenshot is on front page of HN with 500+ upvotes.
I mean this has happened with Instagram accounts historically. https://medium.com/@behoff/they-say-nothing-will-change-5c54...
These days in 2020, a short Instagram handle is probably worth more than it was in 2014, though.
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This is an extremely reductive. Temperature or gravity are not composed of people, who have the ability to make change within the system they comprise.
Let me rephrase. Too high or too low temperature environment can hurt people. People with a soldeing iron can hurt people. People putting other people in the fridge can hurt people. Just temperature is not something which can do anything to anyone. Capitalist companies, people living in capitalism, governments under capitalism, taxes and so on may be good or bad for people. But saying "capitalism does not give a shit…
I also find it unfortunate that you'd choose to represent such potential flexibility in the system as "meaningless socialist slogans." That makes it feel like you're not engaging in good faith with the central argument.
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I think this goes a bit broader than just social media. It really has to do with the concept of ownership of words/handles/subdomains on third-party systems. Who owns a twitter handle? Who owns an Instagram account handle? Do people with trademarks have a right to their trademark on a third-party system? I work at AWS. Some of our services allow you to customize subdomains (AWS SSO, as an example). There have been cu…
Precisely what I was going to link this to: the early (and now, TLD-expansion) domain name ownership mess. The US (and seemingly other countries) trademark system is woefully underspecified for the modern world. Among other issues: - Enforcement, given an exponential explosion of user-created public content with increasingly sophisticated tools - 1:1 design & physical matter copying - Likeness-intended / indistinguis…
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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.
It's not conspiracy theories, it's any story about a big company doing something bad or evil. Or any story that confirms the worldview of the most active HN commenters. Any story about Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Google, Uber, or PayPal doing anything negative tends to bring out the most cynical commenters. HN is usually a skeptical crowd, right until a story arrives that fits their worldview. The false story about…
In any case, just for posterity, the actual event may well have happened, I'm just commenting on whether "HN believes it" has any impact on the truth of whether it happened or whether that company's reputation is shot.
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I live with a FB employee. Most of my close friends are FB employees. I've literally never heard this.
Well, thank God for that, because with that kind of authoritative observation we can close the books on this one permanently. Dodged a bullet there, didn’t we? Pitchforks down, everyone, ‘mrits has this one in hand. This is an extremely well-known phenomenon. This is the third time I’ve heard of it happening to an OG. It’s pretty common knowledge that the right teams inside Instagram look the other way; what’s a user…
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