From the way Prince sperged out and the wording of his statement, I genuinely think he had his family threatened.
I honestly don't think that's what happened. Had he received a genuinely credible threat to the safely of his family, he'd have run screaming to the feds and gone into hiding with his family in a bunker somewhere (he's rich, after all), rather than immediately cave to extortion. The frantic phrasing in his statement definitely suggests panic, but it had to have been a threat to his long term outlook and not just a direct "imma kill ur family lol" kind of threat.
It reeks of a "say the line" moment -- whoever spooked him wanted to see him publicly humiliate himself by parroting the same shit every other liar does about KF and reversing what he'd "eloquently" said two days prior. The penalty he faced if he didn't obey was potentially the death of the company and loss of his income and assets -- an indirect but serious threat to his family (and thousands of others).
Just funny overall because actions speak louder than words and they assume that no one is going to do more than a cursory glance at this situation (from the perspective of a potential CF customer) . Their response to the question comes off as ill-prepared, but it's easy to show that they did not provide Null with any options or leeway. Even assuming the bullshit that KF was a free customer, that only leads to more questions.
They didn't give him any options. To my knowledge no human being has ever responded to any email or other inquiry Null has ever sent to CF. It's fucking ridiculous that a company supposedly willing to protect "controversial" sites won't even
talk to you if people are currently mad at them for allowing you on their infrastructure. Especially if you're a paying customer (which Null was).
That worried the C-levels at my company too. Despite what we're paying them already each year, they're yet again "altering the deal" to make their existing level of support more expensive. If we don't pony up for the higher tier of support they're introducing, they're completely removing humans from the loop. Their words. No more account rep, no more quarterly meetings to go over metrics/stats/updates or technical issues/feature requests, no direct phone or email support. Just helpdesk-only tech support and a once-a-year "here's what we think you should pay us next year" meeting. SLA's going to 2 hours too, down from 1 hour.
It's absolute bullshit. And there's
still no guarantee from them even if we do pay for that higher support tier that they wouldn't still just pull the plug some day without warning. They wouldn't even entertain the suggestion.
I've never looked deep into CF business culture, but there's obviously conflict between the companies "original vision" and what they are right now. All of these shenanigans seems like a big turning point for a lot of stuff at the very least.
There's absolutely some kind of infighting going on within the company over this. I get that the sales drones we talked to weren't supposed to really talk about any of it with us and don't particularly fault them in particular for being so cagey with their answers (if they say the wrong thing they get fired; I can understand that), but the fact that there wasn't a prepared and well-rehearsed response to any of our questions tells me the fur's still flying within the company and nobody actually knows what the "official line" should really be yet.
This is the feel good news I really needed today. YouTube for whatever its faults isn't as pozzed as twitter.
lol nah, Youtube's far worse than twitter. They're just not as nimble and reactive. They're much bigger and despite having a deeper, more advanced infection, bigger machines take longer to make decisions and they move more slowly when carrying them out.
Youtube is walking a tightrope that twitter isn't -- they're dealing with Hollywood studios (and the entire copyright cartel in general) breathing down their neck, high-dollar "influencers," advertisers generating billions in revenue, politicians constantly leaning on them to steer public opinion, their own infestation of woketards and manipulators, incompetent engineers endlessly fucking with The Algorithm(tm). Unlike twitter, which is just basically "winging it," Youtube probably at least
occasionally consults their legal team before making policy changes or taking action against high-profile accounts.
