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0 pointszamadatix6y ago0 comments

"would you give up your account name" "No" "We have changed your account name"

Is 10x worse than "we have changed your account name". If you're going to do something and there aren't any alternatives don't act like it's a question unless an extremely high ratio will say yes.

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littlestymaar6y ago

What about "would you give up your account name" "No" "Ok fine, I'll have to find a new name. Have a nice day sir.".

This story pretty much sounds like “All animals are equals but some are more equals than others”[1] to me.

[1]Georges Orwell Animal Farm (his best book IMO)

jdsully6y ago

Isn't the whole premise of royalty that we are explicitly not equal?

littlestymaar6y ago

But as far as I know, US citizens[1] don't recognize sovereignty of the British Crown since 1776… In that particular days, they even ratified a text saying “that all men are created equal”.

[1] (and Instagram is owned byt a majority of American citizens)

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sbr4646y ago

Great reference. Perfectly fitting.

will_brown6y ago

>"would you give up your account name"

Sure will you give up all my data, metadata and shadow profile? Oh and don’t forget to forward me all funds you have made selling my data and or serving me Ads to date.

I’d really like ICANN to take away the Instagram domain and reassign it to some royals at their request while we are at it.

eeeeeeeeeeeee6y ago

I'm not talking about proposing a false question under the pretense that you're going to take it regardless of the answer.

Your assumption that Instagram can grab anything they want just shows the normalcy of this type of behavior. Maybe we, as the consumers of these products, should step up and say that is not cool? If you do it to that person, what is to stop you from doing it to another in the future, to me?

I think it should also be a signal to any one that creates a brand, a business, on Instagram. Instagram can instantly snatch your livelihood without even contacting you.

I'm proposing people being human and remembering that just because a URL path might be a technical creation, there is still a human being behind that and we should treat people as we want to be treated.

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littlestymaar6y ago

What about "would you give up your account name" "No" "Ok fine, I'll have to find a new name. Have a nice day sir.".

This story pretty much sounds like “All animals are equals but some are more equals than others”[1] to me.

[1]Georges Orwell Animal Farm (his best book IMO)

jdsully6y ago

Isn't the whole premise of royalty that we are explicitly not equal?

littlestymaar6y ago

But as far as I know, US citizens[1] don't recognize sovereignty of the British Crown since 1776… In that particular days, they even ratified a text saying “that all men are created equal”.

[1] (and Instagram is owned byt a majority of American citizens)

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sbr4646y ago

Great reference. Perfectly fitting.

will_brown6y ago

>"would you give up your account name"

Sure will you give up all my data, metadata and shadow profile? Oh and don’t forget to forward me all funds you have made selling my data and or serving me Ads to date.

I’d really like ICANN to take away the Instagram domain and reassign it to some royals at their request while we are at it.

eeeeeeeeeeeee6y ago

I'm not talking about proposing a false question under the pretense that you're going to take it regardless of the answer.

I think it should also be a signal to any one that creates a brand, a business, on Instagram. Instagram can instantly snatch your livelihood without even contacting you.

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