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Illegal drugs are a symptom, not a cure, of the healthcare system.
Tell HN: Banned from LinkedIn for Reporting Wickr Drug Spam
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OP's wording could have been better but you can understand he means images of illegal drugs. Very kind of you to nitpick this, how else could people have known?
Imagine if your job was moderating content and some rando spammed your mod queue with “illegal imagery!!!” (which is not, in fact, factually true) and then you banned them to get rid of the noise, then somehow their story made it to the front of HN.
Re: Tell HN: Banned from LinkedIn for Reporting Wickr Drug Spam
#73Nobody really needs linked in. I wouldn't worry about it.
Re: Tell HN: Banned from LinkedIn for Reporting Wickr Drug Spam
#74I don’t understand why people are surprised to lose social media accounts like this. Companies decide to stop selling products all the time. We don’t see posts like this every time Wal-Mart decides to stop selling some brand of cookies, and it’s essentially the same relationship we have as their products.
Walmart isn’t going to throw you in jail for reporting the drug dealing in isle3.
This is just because Walmart is too large to be in a mall.
Re: Tell HN: Banned from LinkedIn for Reporting Wickr Drug Spam
#75Are you concerned now that illegal enterprise now knows your details and can possibly retaliate? Are you easily doxable ?
Creating a new set of LinkedIn accounts to spam with costs much less than taking an online feud "offline" where the risk is much higher and could include "jail time" if it goes wrong. He'll be fine.
I really hope so.
Re: Tell HN: Banned from LinkedIn for Reporting Wickr Drug Spam
#76Happened to me with telegram. Reported a scammer in relevant tg channels, next thing I know , several users reported me, and telegram blocked me for spam.
Yup. I got some dkim-signed scam mails ("you have won an X" and "missing package details" scams) from a Danish domain, I figured that Denmark was civilized enough that it was worth it to try their domain provider's abuse reporting. Nope, I got an explosion of spam after that, including some that looked like sign ups for genuine newsletters (as much as anything without double opt in can be considered legitimate). Looks an awful lot like the domain registrar decided to punish me with more spam for trying to get their scammer buddy kicked off.
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Thanks for highlighting this side of "Illegal drugs".
For some time I had to order Naltrexone (LDN) for my partner with ME/CFS with bitcoin as it was impossible to find a doctor who could subscribe this, let alone know about this specific treatment. She benefited greatly and it would not have been possible without very spammy looking pharmacy sites and bitcoin. Luckily things have improved and this is now possible using regular channels.
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Eh, I was semi-addicted to heroin, and I can testify - hell, I can give you a list of usernames from memory - that that's absolutely endemic on Wickr. It's the #1 go-to location for it[0]. It's not just 'virtuous' stuff like medical marijuana and abortion pills. I wasn't remotely surprised to read any of this.
And I will bet you, at any odds you like, that the harms done by heroin (uh, 'medical diamorphine') and other opioids outstrip the few virtuous uses a hundredfold.
[0] Perhaps second to the so-called dark web, though that serves a discovery purpose which is a bit orthogonal (and complementary) to Wickr.
Re: Tell HN: Banned from LinkedIn for Reporting Wickr Drug Spam
#79Nobody really needs linked in. I wouldn't worry about it.
LinkedIn is an absolute cesspool, but some people do need a profile there, even if they don’t actively use it. If you’re doing sales or raising money, you basically have to have a profile there.
Re: Tell HN: Banned from LinkedIn for Reporting Wickr Drug Spam
#80I recommend filing a report with the Microsoft Security Response Center, especially in light that a malicious party may now have information on you, and as people below pointed out there may be (1) risk of Doxing, and/or (2) there are some suggestions that Microsoft (LinkedIn) employees may be compromised. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/msrc (Report an Issue)
I wonder whether by compromised you mean:
1. compromised in the spy movie sense of them voluntarily passing information to the scammers (potentially for money)
2. compromised in the IT security sense of their accounts or computers having been hacked
3. some superset of 1. and 2.