I had to check if it was April Fools' Day. This is one of the most disturbing posts I've seen in a while. I sincerely hope that people who profit off of this will get fired at the very least.
Building a platform to bribe your way through the opaque customer non-service system of these companies is either low corruption or high art.
Society at the mercy of customer service so bad that we revert to bribes.
And the techbro answer is an upstart third-party for-profit service to facilitate the bribery, complete with a launch on HN.
And it's a marketplace, with offers, for libertarian bonus points.
On the other hand, I guess life does imitate art sometimes...
100 art points.
These companies claim that people can make a livelihood, or save their digital lives with their services, but the dark underbelly seems to be that for any reason, these companies can erase you, and even worse, you can “bribe” an insider to get things back. Its an elegant way to expose an issue that you only really might see a random youtuber complain about. How much more widespread should you allow this to get?
Instead of writing an article for wired, create an app to bring attention to an issue.
I don’t see how he can guarantee you’ll be anonymous for long.
How do you know they are doing it on their company paid time?
Remember who the true hero was. He wasn't in it for long.