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Flock and Cyble Inc. weaponize “cybercrime” takedowns to silence critics

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Re: Flock and Cyble Inc. weaponize “cybercrime” takedowns to silence critics

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This is a Y Combinator company? https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/flock-safety

dang/tomhow, does Y Combinator have a code of ethics that comes into play when one of your funding recipients does something unethical and/or illegal like this?

Re: Flock and Cyble Inc. weaponize “cybercrime” takedowns to silence critics

#6

This is a Y Combinator company? https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/flock-safety dang/tomhow, does Y Combinator have a code of ethics that comes into play when one of your funding recipients does something unethical and/or illegal like this?

yeah their code of ethics is to laugh all the way to the bank and be untouchable. nothing will happen to them from YC.

Re: Flock and Cyble Inc. weaponize “cybercrime” takedowns to silence critics

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Remember when Zuck called his fellow students at harvard who used facebook “Dumb fucks”? The US is accelerating into techno-authoritarianism, and all of these tech companies adopted “companies over countries” motto since the start, it’s not a surprise now.

Re: Flock and Cyble Inc. weaponize “cybercrime” takedowns to silence critics

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This is a Y Combinator company? https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/flock-safety dang/tomhow, does Y Combinator have a code of ethics that comes into play when one of your funding recipients does something unethical and/or illegal like this?

One long-standing code is that they moderate YC companies less on HN, allowing criticisms like yours to stand: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34320816

To HN's credit I haven't seen this rule violated.

For example I wouldn't have known it was a YC company if not for your comment.

Re: Flock and Cyble Inc. weaponize “cybercrime” takedowns to silence critics

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Absolutely unacceptable behavior. Wild that Americans are so distracted by pointless social issues that they haven’t even realized the ruling elite are treating them like cattle. Absolutely pathetic.

The pointless social issues are manufactured specifically in order to distract Americans from the fact they are being treated like cattle.

Re: Flock and Cyble Inc. weaponize “cybercrime” takedowns to silence critics

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If Flock truly believed that the domain name infringes on their trademark, they would file an ICANN UDRP complaint instead of Cloudflare and Hetzner abuse reports.

But they don't, because the former would require them to perjure themselves, and the latter just requires them to lie to a hosting company.

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