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OT: The News Thread

The timing is indeed curious. Just last night there was a 60 Minutes story featuring a whistleblower who used to work at Facebook who claims that Zuckerberg and Co. knew about all the harmful effects the platform causes but did nothing about it because money. Then today the platform suddenly goes down.
 
MindzEye said:
....open a new account?
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It bans your URL, not just your user account. So as soon as you try to open a new account it sees that you're doing it from a URL they have already flagged. Creating multiple accounts in order to circumvent their disciplinary actions is also a Twitter crime apparently. Plus, they usually make you provide a phone number as part of the account verification process and that too is flagged. So unless you find a different URL and have a new phone number you're screwed. I created a new account when my original one got axed and it worked for a few minutes but then suddenly the algorithm discovered that it was the same URL and it axed that account too. I'm not tech savvy enough to find ways around it and it's not that important. It just makes looking at twitter posts a hassle when you don't have an account.
 
WeHaveMoreCupsThanYou said:
It bans your URL, not just your user account. So as soon as you try to open a new account it sees that you're doing it from a URL they have already flagged. Creating multiple accounts in order to circumvent their disciplinary actions is also a Twitter crime apparently. Plus, they usually make you provide a phone number as part of the account verification process and that too is flagged. So unless you find a different URL and have a new phone number you're screwed. I created a new account when my original one got axed and it worked for a few minutes but then suddenly the algorithm discovered that it was the same URL and it axed that account too. I'm not tech savvy enough to find ways around it and it's not that important. It just makes looking at twitter posts a hassle when you don't have an account.
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by URL... you mean IP?
 
worm said:
didn't some leaf poster make money off buying and selling domain names?
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Yes, but it's different when the business can be argued to be publicly known. Basically you have to argue (as the domain owner) that you have a valid use for the domain name outside of selling it to the named company at an extreme markup.

For example, say you bought Edmontonhottubs.com and there was a specific business named Edmonton Hot Tubs in existence. You do nothing with the domain and immediately try to sell it to them for 50 grand. They sue you for cyber squatting, they win and get the domain. But, you buy the same domain, put a wordpress blog on it with some articles on how to buy a hot tub, videos of you shopping for hot tubs in and around Edmonton, etc, etc and now try to sell it to them, it's now a legitimate website with a real purpose in the world separate from the commercial business of the same name. If they sue, they lose. They don't own the right to the domain just because they're named similarly, but if they can show that you have no legitimate interest in the name aside from it's commercial value to that specific entity, they win.

Where the domain flipping comes from (waaaaay more difficult in 2021 than it was in 2011) is finding common words and phrases (the shorter, the more valuable) and purchasing them to flip. That's entirely okay as long as it's not publicly known, trademarked entities.
 
MindzEye said:
Seems hardly necessary after we made all of those structural changes to the world economy after the Panama papers dropped, uncovering the corrupt structure the wealthy use to hoarde their money.
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True, true. In fact, one might expect a sudden surge in defenestration in the comings week to help maintain the status quo.
 
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