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Comment by ngetchell | Hacker News Reader

Or more likely, some automated security system flagged popular but suspicious apps for further review.

If you use an automated process to disable accounts but then state there is no appeals process available as they stated, then you are not to be trusted to be acting in good faith. Bad actors should be called out and not given the benefit of the doubt.

Automated systems breaking things without any human contact to get them resolved seems to be the theme of the last 10 years.

This phenomenon is so Orwellian with insufficient awareness, it should both be an SNL skit and a John Oliver episode. It's illiberal, neoliberal, corporate bullshit that causes harm to individuals. These companies need to be treated as utilities and the "companies can do whatever they want" arguments must be debunked and defeated because of the pervasive power they hold and immense harm they can cause to individuals without a remedy when they rug pull access without clear cause.

It also reminds me of the case of the entire family who lost all of their payment-linked individual accounts including business data and an academic dissertation because the son allegedly behaved inappropriately with a bot. Collective punishment on top of technofeudal instant banishment.

And the worst thing is that we have the power to collectively make that behavior into a corporation-ending scandal but we choose not to because it doesn't affect most of us personally yet.

Where are the people that tried to sell us software signatures as security benefit? The reality is that they are a very specific security problem. In theory and in practice.

Maybe they let Mythos loose and it suggested the safest approach was to remove access ;)

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