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The briefest of looks at their comment history suggest they are simply helpful.
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Amazon cancels my account after exposing account lockout for “racist doorbell” [video]
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> All big tech companies have this "trigger happy" approach to closing down accounts. After years, I made my first Instagram post last week. I got instantly banned (it was a picture of a new bag I bought). Apparently the way to get it back is to jump through some hoops and post a selfie with an OTP. I decided that’s a bit much work and I might as well let them delete my account that only follows a bunch of people I k…
If you attempt to use a credit card that you haven't used in years, the bank will similarly ask you to verify your identity. I don't think it's weird that unused valuable accounts need re-identification when you start to use them again. I don't mind anti-spam measures in cases which are common spam techniques. Hijacking unused accounts is common enough to warrant an approach like this.
Wait so if you have a "backup" card in case of emergency, the chances are it'll fail anyway? I kinda hate this stuff where we have to guess at how some company's internal mystery processes work to actually use their service :-/
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Outside of Healthcare, the Financial industry is the most regulated industry in the US. Regulatory compliance is often why payment companies and other financial companies are often trigger happy. It's risk management.
Yeah sure, that's why Lehmann Brothers happened and private accounts are the high risk accounts.
Not that kind of risk...
Re: Amazon cancels my account after exposing account lockout for “racist doorbell” [video]
#125Summary: The YouTuber had his Amazon affiliate account canceled after 7 years without warning or evidence of wrongdoing. The reason given was that purchases made through his links were for personal use or made by friends and family, which he denies. He finds the timing suspicious as it came a week after he made a video criticizing Amazon for canceling a customer's account for a racist doorbell claim. He argues that t…
It's not just Amazon. All big tech companies have this "trigger happy" approach to closing down accounts. Especially payment companies. I believe we need to pass down new consumer laws to protect the people. We pretty much rely on their services and they have no accountability.
"The strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must. Of the gods we believe, and of men we know, that by a necessary law of their nature they rule wherever they can."
Thucydides , ~5th century BC
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Because that’s not how society works
Worked for thousands of years, but perhaps now it is time to rely on the people bribed by big corporations?
It's not even all that legal in a lot of places. For example, it's not legal to make a cash transaction over 1,000 euros in Spain - they locked it down to try and catch folks who tax evade by running all-cash businesses.
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Written by AI?
"In a YouTube video titled "Amazon cancels my account after exposing account lockout for 'racist doorbell'," the speaker shares his experience of Amazon cancelling his seven-year-old affiliate program account, claiming he violated their operating agreement. Despite using the same links to promote products on his YouTube channel for seven years and earning meagre profits, Amazon cancelled his account without any reaso…
Skip the speech-to-text step, grab the subtitles from youtube.
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The Chinese point system is exactly what this reminds me of. It is ironic that unrestrained capitalism actually ends in a variant of communism where it are the corporations, rather than the party, that rule society.
that's definitely not communism. Some sort of capitalist-imperialism, maybe, but definitely not communism.
They meant actually-existing communism, not communism-in-theory. (Not that I favor one definition or another, but different people use words in different ways.)
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Because that’s not how society works
Worked for thousands of years, but perhaps now it is time to rely on the people bribed by big corporations?
For most of those thousands of years, money was a precious metal (although not always the same one).
We moved away from it because of all the things that go wrong with that, and then the internet happened and we want digital money.
"Digital money" in the broadest sense is how it all works today, even with the coins and notes that are common here in Berlin. "Trust-less" money — without anyone who can undo transactions — is an illusion, as it necessitates the users trust their counterparty as court-ordered refunds can't be guaranteed. But too many entities who can undo transactions has a similar effect, and there's a benefit to scale, so you naturally end up with a small number of Visa/MasterCard/PayPal types who have motive, means, and opportunity to bribe/regulatory-capture governments.
One of the reasons I was originally curious about BTC, before it gave me "scam!" vibes, was the possible it might be a new path that might avoid some of this; but I no longer have that impression.