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This is a very common thing. In fact influencers and FB employees publicly and loudly talk about this method and no one stops them. "Hey I'm visiting fb headquarters anyone want a new @ or a checkmark?" Why do random fb employees even have this capability?
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You're gonna have to elaborate on that.
I am an e-resident and I "bought" a company in Estonia from another company in Estonia, owned by a Russian scamster. Both companies do exist and are in "good standing". Estonian authorities don't care about criminal activities, wire fraud or money laundering. In fact, I wasn't even able to get a case number or in most cases even an answer. So this guy is selling the same company over and over again. Not a bad busines…
If no, please do so and point people at it. There isn't much/any info about this kind of problem with eResidency companies. Getting the info to be widely known will help in getting it addressed. At least for the next people. :/
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Ah yes sure you don’t pay Google a dime, so don’t you worry if you lose your account tomorrow, it’s not like anything is owed to you. Say bye to verroq@gmail.com
Not sure what your point is because that’s happened to people and they have no recourse.
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Yes, that's the simplest explanation. Not that Instagram is above giving an existing nobody's account to a VIP, but they're not going to do that without wiping its content, and notifying the nobody first.
> notifying the nobody first They certainly never do this. SOP is just to swap the existing account to a different name.
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> notifying the nobody first They certainly never do this. SOP is just to swap the existing account to a different name.
Hey, I knew you on IRC a long time ago. You hooked me up with some SuperVPN proxies that worked for a few years. I left the scene about the same time because of YUI's arrest- I wanted to say thanks. I've been thinking about HTP and co a lot recently, because of my work. Also want to thank you for pwning r000t.
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It's not conspiracy theories, it's any story about a big company doing something bad or evil. Or any story that confirms the worldview of the most active HN commenters. Any story about Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Google, Uber, or PayPal doing anything negative tends to bring out the most cynical commenters. HN is usually a skeptical crowd, right until a story arrives that fits their worldview. The false story about…
> It's not conspiracy theories, it's any story about a big company doing something bad or evil. Or any story that confirms the worldview of the most active HN commenters. > Any story about Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Google, Uber, or PayPal doing anything negative tends to bring out the most cynical commenters. HN is usually a skeptical crowd, right until a story arrives that fits their worldview. It's these compan…
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Precisely what I was going to link this to: the early (and now, TLD-expansion) domain name ownership mess. The US (and seemingly other countries) trademark system is woefully underspecified for the modern world. Among other issues: - Enforcement, given an exponential explosion of user-created public content with increasingly sophisticated tools - 1:1 design & physical matter copying - Likeness-intended / indistinguis…
There's also the international issue. Different countries can have conflicting trademarks. So if you've got a valid trademark for "ACME, inc" from the US, and someone else has a valid trademark for "ACME, inc" from the UK, who gets the ACME domain/TLD/subdomain/twitter handle/etc? Both can get legal judgements in their respective countries!
1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Corps_v_Apple_Computer