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It’s racketeering

• Arrath 3y ago
  Watch these vultures frame it as clever vertical integration. They control the supply (the sites with your info) and the demand (the sites you can go through to request it get taken down) /s, obviously
• maximinus_thrax 3y ago
  It's been going on for years https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jun/12/mugshot-exploitation-websites-arrests-shame https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jun/12/mugshot-e...
• m463 3y ago
  this seems to fit the definition. In many cases, the potential problem may be caused by the same party that offers to solve it, but that fact may be concealed, with the intent to engender continual patronage. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racketeering https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racketeering
  • throwaway2474 3y ago
    See also https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worldcoin https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worldcoin
    • andirk 3y ago
      Lol those orbs! Oddly, Worldcoin's main exchange is Binance which stopped doing business in USA so I couldn't get a bag. Up almost 10x. Not bad for a sphere that proves "personhood". With AI making actual people vs machine created more difficult to discern, it may have evermore applications.
• walterbell 3y ago
  From "The Sopranos", Patsy and Burt failed extortion attempt at "Starbucks", https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Gsz7Gu6agA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Gsz7Gu6agA
  • dylan604 3y ago
    I always loved that scene. The times, they are a-changin