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Re: Our app was banned because the button says “Report User” and not just “Report”

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Post by jollofricepeas »

throwaway210222 wrote: post #73
mhuffman wrote: post #71

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This sounds like a nightmare! Eskom seems to have been around for a long time, but this problem seems to have kicked in a little over a decade ago. Did something recently happen to Eskom to make them incompetent?

> Did something recently happen to Eskom to make them incompetent? The African National Congress.

Ah yes because the Nationalist Party was so much better during the good old days of apartheid when corruption ran at an all-time high.

It does not matter who holds it. Unchecked power always corrupts.

Re: Our app was banned because the button says “Report User” and not just “Report”

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Post by tempodox »

euph0ria wrote: post #53

The company I work for has forbidden the use of Google and their services such as GCP etc. due to how they treat their Play Store developers and other customer, in particular that there never seems to be any human being that you can talk to and find out what you need to do to fix the situation. We do not want the same to occur to our servers or if there is an overflow from Play Store ban to GCP etc. The business risk…

Makes sense. The best thing you can do with Google is to stay as far away as possible.

Re: Our app was banned because the button says “Report User” and not just “Report”

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Post by astrange »

Can_Not wrote: post #96
astrange wrote: post #79

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You could sue them in small claims court.

I'm completely in favor of everyone suing facebook for literally any reason, but to be clear, what would the legal standing/basis be for this small claims court?

The balance in their ad account belongs to them, not to Facebook.

Beyond that, the point is just to make them notice you, so anything might be good enough. Reporting to a regulator like the CFPB can also be effective if the case looks financey - I got my PayPal account back recently that way after they didn't like how I typed in a tracking number and banned me for life.

Re: Our app was banned because the button says “Report User” and not just “Report”

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Post by kokx »

JimDabell wrote: post #95
hnick wrote: post #86

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It's rife in the industry. The drama this week is that my wife can't log in to Facebook because their code generator just doesn't work. The number in the app shows up, she types it, but she can't log in because apparently it's just wrong. Due to their marvelous design, you need a personal account to run an advertising account for your place of work. Luckily she hasn't been logged out on her work laptop yet or she cou…

If you haven’t already, check the time / date / timezone on the device that is generating the codes. Facebook uses TOTP for this, which is time-based. If the time on your device is wrong, the codes will be wrong. I would expect this problem to pop up more frequently this time of year due to errors relating to daylight saving time.

DST has nothing to do with TOTP. The TOTP spec specifies that unix time has to be used as the time source, which does not have DST.

Re: Our app was banned because the button says “Report User” and not just “Report”

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Post by rendall »

jollofricepeas wrote: post #101
throwaway210222 wrote: post #73

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Did something recently happen to Eskom to make them incompetent? The African National Congress.

Ah yes because the Nationalist Party was so much better during the good old days of apartheid when corruption ran at an all-time high. It does not matter who holds it. Unchecked power always corrupts.

I imagine it's difficult to address problems with the government if, whenever anyone does so, someone brings up the former government.

Bring up slavery in Dubai, and people start talking about the transatlantic slave trade and European colonialism.

It gives people of the present a free pass to behave reprehensibly, because other people in the past behaved reprehensibly

Re: Our app was banned because the button says “Report User” and not just “Report”

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Post by throwawaysea »

A more fundamental question is why it is Google’s business at all to police apps or the content users generate on them. If someone finds content “objectionable”, they should just move on, and not complain or try to shut down that content. What an utterly unnecessary fiasco. We need decentralized platforms and alternatives to the hegemony of Google, Apple, and other big tech companies.

Re: Our app was banned because the button says “Report User” and not just “Report”

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Post by throwaways885 »

unityByFreedom wrote: post #75
throwaways885 wrote: post #55

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Why didn't the primary app involved banned then? https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/14/opinion/facebook-far-righ...

Not sure Facebook was primary but.. Did people really post about storming the capitol using their real names?

Of course they did - after all, they wouldn't do it if they thought they were in the wrong. In fairness, the vast majority of those who went to the capitol that day were there for the Trump rally, not smashing up congress.

Re: Our app was banned because the button says “Report User” and not just “Report”

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Post by zo1 »

TheCapeGreek wrote: post #88
zo1 wrote: post #45

For anyone unaware, the name of the app is a play on a swear word. "EskomSePush" is an intentional play on the phrase "Eskom Se Poes". Eskom being the power utility that provides electricity to South Africa, and has been woefully inadequate at doing so. See here for a meaning of the word Poes in Afrikaans. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/poes#Afrikaans Wonder if Google is aware of that and has been getting lots of "re…

So you dislike the devs because they added an optional feature? There's not much more to expand on the core functionality of notifications & schedule visibility.

I didn't say I dislike them. I'm just saying they don't get sympathy from me regarding this "User Generated Content" feature that is now being targeted by Google. They should have known this feature would be a place for people to vent in ugly ways rather than to discuss or offer advice. And South Africa right now is a hotbed of civil discontent, especially between different racial/cultural groups.
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