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WhiteHat Jr’s founder files $2.6M defamation suit against critic

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Re: WhiteHat Jr’s founder files $2.6M defamation suit against critic

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Post by villgax »

dilawar wrote: post #27
tempstar wrote: post #7

They are the biggest scam in India capitalizing on FOMO of Indian parents. They charge heaftily (more than $2000) to teach app development (using Scratch, Firebase etc.). Their staff is poorly paid and just reads off scripts. Their staff doesn't know even the basics of CS (as evidenced in this video: https://youtu.be/1Y21eSn_zSM?t=64 , when the student asks how files are stored in Cloud Storage, she says the files ar…

Primary education and public health us possibly the biggest scam but they would come pretty close. Do they have connections with ruling party?

Doesn't seem so, it's just a PR/Legal team with a lot more money & head in the ground attitude towards people seeing through their lies & reporting it.

Re: WhiteHat Jr’s founder files $2.6M defamation suit against critic

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Post by villgax »

sokoloff wrote: post #30
ffpip wrote: post #19

I feel scared for him. He has been constantly exposing more of this shitty company on reddit (r/india) WhiteHatJr's ads are complete BS. They advertise that a 9 year old kid (wolf gupta, yes that is apparently his real name) got a job at Google

It seems odd for a company to publicly accuse Google of exploiting 9-year-olds in India in their advertising.

They made it out to make believe that kid got a job at google, somehow.

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Post by kowlo »

villgax wrote: post #23
kowlo wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sounds terrible. How are his accounts being taken down?

Check the reviewer's twitter. He has shared slack threads where the marketing Execs ask the entire channel to brigade & report his tweets/linkedin posts/YouTube videos without any copyrighted content as well. https://twitter.com/whiteHatSnr/

It's a shame YouTube can't moderate these claims using humans...

(A quick sidenote: funny he took the handle "whiteHatSnr")

Re: WhiteHat Jr’s founder files $2.6M defamation suit against critic

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Post by villgax »

techie128 wrote: post #29

Their claims are absolutely false as witnessed by the numerous Slack screenshots. When I first came across their ads, I dismissed them as scammy and even reported a few. Scams are common place everywhere but they're particularly vicious in India because parents will fork over their life savings for securing their child's future. If there is actual an actual court case against WhiteHat Jr, they will likely tone down t…

The problem is wider with such startups using money to copyright strike or takedown critical content. They abused Content ID to take down valid & legal use of copyrighted content in reviews as well.

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Post by bavell »

So typical that all the social media platforms are complicit in their little scheme. All of them are happy to silence this guy who is pointing out blatant fraud and corruption without a second thought. Broken copyright system once again a major player.

Why do we allow these massively profitable companies get away with this crap?

Re: WhiteHat Jr’s founder files $2.6M defamation suit against critic

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Post by sokoloff »

villgax wrote: post #32
sokoloff wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It seems odd for a company to publicly accuse Google of exploiting 9-year-olds in India in their advertising.

They made it out to make believe that kid got a job at google, somehow.

I understand. That’s isomorphic with accusing Google of employing a 9-year-old, which might suggest a path to investigate with the aim of getting Google to issue an admittance or a categorical denial of this outlandish claim.

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Post by hudixt »

What is WhiteHat JR?

It teaches coding to kids of age 6 charging upto 1500$ for 100 clases.

To sum up, this is very high amount from any standar, parents take loan to fund this. Second, they use black hat marketing tactics claiming 10year old student now earns million of dollars.

I'm not sure if there tactics are even legal. Platforms like FB, Google should fact-check on ads.

Seriously how can you believe a kid is earning 10mn$ a year. And has no mention anywhere on the web.

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