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Re: LinkedIn blocked due Meshtastic video in private chat

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Post by anitil »

cynicalsecurity wrote: post #5

Welcome to a brave new world of digital fascism and mass surveillance. Why does every message have to be scanned with AI? Since when WeChat behaviour has become an example for the Western social media? You don't scan all user private messages with AI, you give your users a report button which they can press if they don't like a message. Only then you can take any other measures. That's is.

> Why does every message have to be scanned with AI?

To answer this question honestly - I would assume that the service owners don't want to get pulled in front of a congressional inquiry about why their service isn't doing anything to prevent the distribution of child abuse material.

Re: LinkedIn blocked due Meshtastic video in private chat

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Post by hypercube33 »

aussieguy1234 wrote: post #58
3ln00b wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Already happened with me, my Amazon account is essentially locked. I changed my phone number and don't have access to my old number anymore and the existing number is apparently associated with some other Amazon account so they can't do anything about it. I stopped using Amazon altogether, I just request my brother to order stuff I want.

I have an esim on my phone which has its own number. I only turn it on if some services asks for a phone number so I don't have to give my main number. Its on a cheap yearly plan, very low data and calls included but I won't be using these.

I'd like to know more. My partner and I were discussing how online bans are unjust and permanent now everywhere. Just feels weird when the Internet we grew up with basically anything went and bans were maybe hours. I get the motivation for it but also feels like the world didn't learn lessons thousands of years old as well.

Re: LinkedIn blocked due Meshtastic video in private chat

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Post by duskwuff »

wiseowise wrote: post #62
duskwuff wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

Yes. Unless it’s a burner or malicious account, I can hardly imagine someone being that courageous to sign death warrant to their career if woman decides to call them out and it goes viral.

Sadly, you underestimate just how stupid some people get when they're horny.

Re: LinkedIn blocked due Meshtastic video in private chat

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Post by gertop »

bsder wrote: post #45
AStonesThrow wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What if your domain registrar is the one to cut you off? What if AWS or some cloud provider kills your self-hosted VPS? What if your ISP or mobile phone provider does it? So many fragile layers to our indispensable digital lives; we all walk on eggshells. I'm paranoid about backups and redundancy, but I'd be devastated by a single lockout.

> What if your domain registrar is the one to cut you off? Then you're fucked. What do you want me to say? That having been said, domain registrars seem to be FAR less likely to do an automated AI rugpull than hosted services from Google, Microsoft, Facebook, etc.

If you use your country's ccTLD you also have recourses against your registrar (if you live in a nice enough country and assuming you just broke some ToS and not committed a crime).

Re: LinkedIn blocked due Meshtastic video in private chat

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Post by rnts08 »

We absolutely need a better platform for professional networking. A platform that's not filled with people who dislocate their shoulders trying to pat themselves on the back for some "inspirational" social media babble about the last time they managed to send an email.

Re: LinkedIn blocked due Meshtastic video in private chat

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Post by literalAardvark »

3ln00b wrote: post #56
unixhero wrote: post #55

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But get a burner phone and set up a new account then???

That was a burner phone number and they're illegal in my country now.

No they're not.

Like, sure, you might need to register your name on it, but that doesn't influence the outcome of signing up for Amazon with it.

Re: LinkedIn blocked due Meshtastic video in private chat

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Post by n_plus_1_acc »

gertop wrote: post #74
bsder wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> What if your domain registrar is the one to cut you off? Then you're fucked. What do you want me to say? That having been said, domain registrars seem to be FAR less likely to do an automated AI rugpull than hosted services from Google, Microsoft, Facebook, etc.

If you use your country's ccTLD you also have recourses against your registrar (if you live in a nice enough country and assuming you just broke some ToS and not committed a crime).

Some Britains lost their .eu domain because they no longer fulfilled the requirements.

Re: LinkedIn blocked due Meshtastic video in private chat

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Post by seanthemon »

hypercube33 wrote: post #72
aussieguy1234 wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have an esim on my phone which has its own number. I only turn it on if some services asks for a phone number so I don't have to give my main number. Its on a cheap yearly plan, very low data and calls included but I won't be using these.

I'd like to know more. My partner and I were discussing how online bans are unjust and permanent now everywhere. Just feels weird when the Internet we grew up with basically anything went and bans were maybe hours. I get the motivation for it but also feels like the world didn't learn lessons thousands of years old as well.

History rhymes

Re: LinkedIn blocked due Meshtastic video in private chat

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Post by waihtis »

kelnos wrote: post #60
3ln00b wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Already happened with me, my Amazon account is essentially locked. I changed my phone number and don't have access to my old number anymore and the existing number is apparently associated with some other Amazon account so they can't do anything about it. I stopped using Amazon altogether, I just request my brother to order stuff I want.

> I stopped using Amazon altogether, I just request my brother to order stuff I want. So... you didn't stop using Amazon altogether.

the modern consumer in a nutshell: you can effectively ban them from your platform and they will still weasel their way back through the tiniest crack in the system. That chinese counterfeit junk amazon sells is just too lucrative

Re: LinkedIn blocked due Meshtastic video in private chat

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Post by hnlmorg »

treyd wrote: post #50
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…

> LinkedIn is pretty important nowadays when searching for work. This is only true if people repeat it and believe it to be true.

Ok. So if you’re locked out of linkedin, now all you need to do is change the hundreds of thousands of other LinkedIn users to change their mindset instead of pleading with LinkedIn themselves to restore your access.
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