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Re: LinkedIn blocked due Meshtastic video in private chat

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Post by zero-sharp »

r3trohack3r wrote: post #17
rlayton2 wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This happens regularly (perhaps not frequently) to people with their Gmail account. Google's AI says no, and there are very few people reporting successfully navigating the system to get their account back. This is one of the anti-google arguments, the other main one being they kill big projects all the time. You are right though, it can be crippling, and this thinking part of your personal (and business) risk profil…

I lost access to a Google account almost a decade ago; trying to get it back was one massive Kafka trap. Every few years I go back and try navigating the Kafka trap again hoping against hope for better results. But I’m still locked out. It’s particularly frustrating because IMAP is setup for it into another google account, so I can still send and receive email from the address but I’m fully locked out of the service.…

How did you lose the account? Was there a reason from Google?

Re: LinkedIn blocked due Meshtastic video in private chat

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Post by devjab »

rlayton2 wrote: post #11
zero-sharp wrote: post #6

I've always wondered about this. What happens if one of the big tech companies makes a mistake and closes your account? LinkedIn is pretty important nowadays when searching for work. Would you be able to make a new account? If not, that seems like a pretty big deal. Same concern with your email, or any of the other big services that we usually depend on. If I just suddenly lost my gmail, I would probably lose access…

This happens regularly (perhaps not frequently) to people with their Gmail account. Google's AI says no, and there are very few people reporting successfully navigating the system to get their account back. This is one of the anti-google arguments, the other main one being they kill big projects all the time. You are right though, it can be crippling, and this thinking part of your personal (and business) risk profil…

I had my YouTube account banned because I changed the channel name into something that trigged their AI. Maybe it was that I’ve never uploaded a video or written a comment? Who knows. Anyway I was fully expecting to have lost my account (and my playlists) forever based on the bad reputation Google has, but when I clicked the “do you disagree with this” appeal thing it took very little time to have my account restored.

This is very anecdotal, and Google’s automated process is probably as horrible as it’s generally made out to be. It was just so surprising to me that it wasn’t, that I thought I would share it.

Re: LinkedIn blocked due Meshtastic video in private chat

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Post by zero-sharp »

taspeotis wrote: post #20
zero-sharp wrote: post #6

I've always wondered about this. What happens if one of the big tech companies makes a mistake and closes your account? LinkedIn is pretty important nowadays when searching for work. Would you be able to make a new account? If not, that seems like a pretty big deal. Same concern with your email, or any of the other big services that we usually depend on. If I just suddenly lost my gmail, I would probably lose access…

Post on the big tech company's official help channel - Hacker News?

I feel like posting on public forums only works if you have a big enough name. I want to be wrong about that.

Re: LinkedIn blocked due Meshtastic video in private chat

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Post by fknorangesite »

MuffinFlavored wrote: post #7
13of40 wrote: post #3

Not sure I'm totally understanding here, but it sounds like LinkedIn turned on (probably AI-based) porn scanning on messages, there was a false positive, and the guy wasn't able to escalate to support. Is there an implication that it was blocked for political reasons?

People send each other porn on LinkedIn?

> send each other

I imagine it's a lot more uni-directional.

Where there is a messaging platform, there are unsolicited dick pics.

Re: LinkedIn blocked due Meshtastic video in private chat

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Post by klabb3 »

zero-sharp wrote: post #6

I've always wondered about this. What happens if one of the big tech companies makes a mistake and closes your account? LinkedIn is pretty important nowadays when searching for work. Would you be able to make a new account? If not, that seems like a pretty big deal. Same concern with your email, or any of the other big services that we usually depend on. If I just suddenly lost my gmail, I would probably lose access…

My linkedin account got taken over a couple months ago. The attacker changed the phone number and immediately added 2FA, but they didn’t control my email. During account recovery LinkedIn suspended the account and asks for ID verification, through a 3p vendor who do government id verification. That passed and LinkedIn said I could login and reset, but it still stayed suspended and asked for id again. My guess is they drowned in complexity in their own recovery flow and I hit an edge case or something.

Re: LinkedIn blocked due Meshtastic video in private chat

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Post by lolinder »

zero-sharp wrote: post #24
taspeotis wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Post on the big tech company's official help channel - Hacker News?

I feel like posting on public forums only works if you have a big enough name. I want to be wrong about that.

HN will very happily brigade for little guys, too. Every few months there's a new "Stripe closed our account" thread that picks up a lot of steam.

Every once in a while it gets Stripe's attention and they fix it. Most of the time the torches burn for a few hours until someone researches the author and figures out they were building a gambling platform or something else explicitly against Stripe's ToS and the thread quietly dies out as people realize OP was just exploiting HN's visceral reactions.

Re: LinkedIn blocked due Meshtastic video in private chat

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Post by kevin_thibedeau »

This is precisely what would have happened if Apple had gotten away with their distributed image hashing scheme. Only in that case the falsely accused would be sent immediately through the justice system and forced to spend a fortune to defend themselves on the assumption that they were hiding the evidence.

Re: LinkedIn blocked due Meshtastic video in private chat

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Post by duskwuff »

MuffinFlavored wrote: post #7
13of40 wrote: post #3

Not sure I'm totally understanding here, but it sounds like LinkedIn turned on (probably AI-based) porn scanning on messages, there was a false positive, and the guy wasn't able to escalate to support. Is there an implication that it was blocked for political reasons?

People send each other porn on LinkedIn?

Given how many people are on LinkedIn, would you doubt that women on the platform sometimes get sexually harassed in DMs, e.g. by people sending them porn?

Re: LinkedIn blocked due Meshtastic video in private chat

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Post by stackghost »

zero-sharp wrote: post #6

I've always wondered about this. What happens if one of the big tech companies makes a mistake and closes your account? LinkedIn is pretty important nowadays when searching for work. Would you be able to make a new account? If not, that seems like a pretty big deal. Same concern with your email, or any of the other big services that we usually depend on. If I just suddenly lost my gmail, I would probably lose access…

>What happens if one of the big tech companies makes a mistake and closes your account?

If you have a friend who is an employee of the BigCo you can sometimes get results.

Otherwise your choices are: get frontpage of HN, or cope.

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