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It's just a less lethal form of SWAT'ing, which has been done. "Trigger a response targeted at the person I'm attacking frome someone or something stronger than I or them ..."
It's kinda like a DoS amplification attack, but amplifying authority instead of bandwidth.
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>Blackmail is also a thing. "take down video x or I'll strike your account" and such. That's still not blackmail. Blackmail is when you threaten to divulge information about someone unless they pay you.
Just repeating the logic for my own OCD: Blackmail is when someone threatens to release your nudes unless you pay them. Extortion is when someone threatens to get you banned on YouTube unless you pay them. Maybe that's because of trolling, because they don't like your content, or simply because they can get paid.
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>Blackmail is also a thing. "take down video x or I'll strike your account" and such. That's still not blackmail. Blackmail is when you threaten to divulge information about someone unless they pay you.
Just repeating the logic for my own OCD: Blackmail is when someone threatens to release your nudes unless you pay them. Extortion is when someone threatens to get you banned on YouTube unless you pay them. Maybe that's because of trolling, because they don't like your content, or simply because they can get paid.
Maybe if we trigger that stuff enough they'll realise what a terrible idea auto banning is.
Or probably not, no they won't.
What is a "Circumvention of Technology claim"?
First step, if you get a demand like that, file a police report. Extortion, and attempted extortion, are crimes. You can also file with the FBI online, which will at least result in your complaint being accumulated with other similar complaints. Not much may happen, but now it's on record. Now you have paperwork establishing a crime. If you're willing to spend legal fees, talk to a lawyer. You can potentially sue the…
Reading, I wonder if it's the sort of thing where Google’s lawyers could brush you off because companies that large are effectively immune.
Google's most excellent customer service at play.
Google cattl^^product might not like it, but customers are being kept happy.
This is only an issue because YouTube doesn't implement a low friction counternotice procedure like the DMCA allows. If they had that then the scammers would have to file a lawsuit.
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But now it seems like there's more criminal profit potential in extortion, as creators are ever more dependent on ever-more-centralized services. A growth industry!
> as creators are ever more dependent on ever-more-centralized services. as creators decided to make themselves ever more dependent on ever-more-centralized services.
Historically some people have decided to sell themselves into slavery, should we respect their freedom of choice?
Discussed at length at the time (in 2020, 354 comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23314937
[1] “WTF Happened in 1971? | Hacker News.” Accessed May 26, 2022. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31471602.