If Livecoding has aligned their interests with the gender ratio of their users to the extent that they're treating you like this, makes sense to speak back to them on their own terms. IMHO.
I didn't actually connect their shadiness about deleting my account with gender and am honestly not convinced that this is it. Sure, they were kind of pushy about promoting the site to women, but there is actually no gender identification on my profile other than my profile picture. I can't remember if gender was specified somewhere in my account settings but then not publicly displayed at this point.
Write a Cease and Desist letter to
Livecoding.tv (Livecoding Ltd)
20-22 Wenlock Road
London, N1 7GU
England
A letter such as this costs less than a Euro, and means they have no excuse not to act on it.
Otherwise you can try sending them a fax, that usually also has better chances at success with businesses.
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The government of the state of Schleswig-Holstein in Germany uses for most official websites the domain .sh, which actually belongs to Saint Helena.
At this point almost all domains on .sh actually belong to companies or governmental entities in Schleswig-Holstein, the remaining domains mostly belong to geeks using it due to the similarity to the file ending .sh for shell files.
Examples:
- http://www.nah.sh/ (Official transit agency)
- http://www.studentenwerk.sh/ (Official Student Service Agency, operates dormitories, etc)
- https://www.wir-bewegen.sh/ (Kickstarter for public projects, operated by the government; one example is "a 3D model of the city for blind people as map, publicly accessible next to the train station")
Many more such cases exist all around the world, it is... weird.
Yep. The Minnesota House of Representatives and Senate use http://www.house.mn/ and http://www.senate.mn/ respectively. It's really strange to see a government agency use a TLD belonging to a foreign country.
This is clearly data protection stuff. I've taken screen shots and poked the information commissioner.