The admin of the Mastodon instance cyberspace.social just received an AI powered notice to delete the parody account @microsoft@lea.pet

  • r00ty@kbin.life
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    1 month ago

    So, here’s what I would do. I would comply (you should be able to delete the local instance of that account). But I’d also reply pointing out that it’s a mirror of the real account hosted at lea.pet and their real beef is with them, and should that user interact with or generate content pushed to you, the local copy would be re-created.

    Keep a copy of the email you send (because it’s highly likely a human doesn’t monitor that mailbox) and then move on with your life. If a real person then wants to complain you can just forward the email you sent and tell them the same still applies.

    It’s automated and the email indicates as such.

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      1 month ago

      Why comply? As far as I’m aware there’s no legal obligation to do so. They think they can just ask for things and get them. Fuck them.

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      1 month ago

      Why comply? As far as I’m aware there’s no legal obligation to do so. They think they can just ask for things and get them. Fuck them.

      • r00ty@kbin.life
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        1 month ago

        Well, legally there’s no reason to comply. At the same time I personally have no skin in the game and deleting the account locally won’t do much (unless you purge their content too).

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          1 month ago

          Sure, but why even do that minor thing for them? Just ignore it like it deserves.

      • MML@sh.itjust.works
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        1 month ago

        When a website links to another like Facebook or similar is the website not at least partially responsible for content, like if the content was terrorism they might ultimately blame Facebook or whoever but still expect the website to remove the content from their page?

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          1 month ago

          Sure, but there’s no obligation to give a company the username with their company name.