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Unfortunately on the internet the onus is on the defendant to prove innocence. I hardly buy the top comment as true but everyone eats it up here since it goes w

Unfortunately on the internet the onus is on the defendant to prove innocence. I hardly buy the top comment as true but everyone eats it up here since it goes with their narrative

bwb 4y ago
Serious? It is entirely true, why would I share that otherwise? I've been on HN for a long time, see my background :) Your account is totally blank and joined in 2021. You also submitted an article about rethinking app development at FB. In a comment you also post you work for a large company. Do you work for Facebook?
- math-dev 4y ago
  I don’t work at facebook but based on your response I am more likely to believe you now. Sorry if it caused any angst, wasn’t intended. However doesn’t change the fact that a lot of things get accepted at face value if they align with what someone’s view of things is
  - bwb 4y ago
    No worries, I just was kinda stunned you would imply I had any motive to not share something accurate. It was a convo I had this morning with an author who is a friend. (It it is just one piece of data, and people are good at finding data that supports their viewpoint of course. Given all the scandals FB is under and problems on this thread, I do think it supports a narrative of FB having massive problems around ethics and moral actions.) Here is a fun story :) I have an ad account at FB for a company I closed in early 2020 due to Covid. I wanted to delete the account, but FB makes it impossible to do that. I message their support and they tell me they can remove it, but they need my ID and a handwritten letter. I am stunned. A handwritten letter??? How does that achieve anything :) So I write out a short note with a bit of snark about a tech company needing a handwritten letter, take a picture and send it to their support chat/ticket along with my ID. They do not like that I was snarky and refuse to do anything, even after I remove some of my snark and resend it. Thus, I still have the account and 14 support replies later they still refuse to help me. (note, they didn't want a letter send to them via the post office, they literally wanted me to write it and send it to them. So weird...)
    - math-dev 4y ago
      That’s crazy to hear! It really feels like the wild Wild West with these large tech companies - consider in contrast how much regulatory and compliance scrutiny a bank would have, they would never dream to behave like petulant little kids. I guess the more fines big tech get and the more regulations enter the space, the faster they will clean up their act.

Unfortunately on the internet the onus is on the defendant to prove innocence. I hardly buy the top comment as true but everyone eats it up here since it goes with their narrative

bwb 4y ago

Serious? It is entirely true, why would I share that otherwise? I've been on HN for a long time, see my background :) Your account is totally blank and joined in 2021. You also submitted an article about rethinking app development at FB. In a comment you also post you work for a large company. Do you work for Facebook?

math-dev 4y ago
I don’t work at facebook but based on your response I am more likely to believe you now. Sorry if it caused any angst, wasn’t intended. However doesn’t change the fact that a lot of things get accepted at face value if they align with what someone’s view of things is
- bwb 4y ago
  No worries, I just was kinda stunned you would imply I had any motive to not share something accurate. It was a convo I had this morning with an author who is a friend. (It it is just one piece of data, and people are good at finding data that supports their viewpoint of course. Given all the scandals FB is under and problems on this thread, I do think it supports a narrative of FB having massive problems around ethics and moral actions.) Here is a fun story :) I have an ad account at FB for a company I closed in early 2020 due to Covid. I wanted to delete the account, but FB makes it impossible to do that. I message their support and they tell me they can remove it, but they need my ID and a handwritten letter. I am stunned. A handwritten letter??? How does that achieve anything :) So I write out a short note with a bit of snark about a tech company needing a handwritten letter, take a picture and send it to their support chat/ticket along with my ID. They do not like that I was snarky and refuse to do anything, even after I remove some of my snark and resend it. Thus, I still have the account and 14 support replies later they still refuse to help me. (note, they didn't want a letter send to them via the post office, they literally wanted me to write it and send it to them. So weird...)
  - math-dev 4y ago
    That’s crazy to hear! It really feels like the wild Wild West with these large tech companies - consider in contrast how much regulatory and compliance scrutiny a bank would have, they would never dream to behave like petulant little kids. I guess the more fines big tech get and the more regulations enter the space, the faster they will clean up their act.