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1. hermitcrab · 1790267696 · focus · HN ↗

   Author of the post here. Github finally took the offending page down approximately 10 minutes after the post appeared on the front page of HN. Total coincidence. I'm sure!

   Moral of the story. If you want even the most basic level of support from Github, you need to get on the front page of HN first.

   And it seems they are able to do things very quickly, when they want to. Bastards.

   1. koolba · 1790268882 · focus · HN ↗

      > Moral of the story. If you want even the most basic level of support from Github, you need to get on the front page of HN first.

      This also works for Google support.

      > And it seems they are able to do things very quickly, when they want to. Bastards.

      I wouldn’t chalk any of this up to malicious intent. I’m sure they are swamped with such requests.

      It was already a problem before agents could automatically perform these actions.

      And it’s not something you can really automate on their end either. At least not the judgement call on the removal. Imagine if there was a fully automated process and it inadvertently took down a legit project.

      1. alightsoul · 1790272504 · focus · HN ↗

         YouTube already does it autonomously with seemingly no legal consequences for them because you agree to it in their tos

         1. nullc · 1790282731 · focus · HN ↗

            YouTube also totally fails to remove obvious fraud videos, even ones they mark verified. (If someone takes over a verified channel and renames it, they keep the verified flag). -- also with no legal consequences.

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