JustTheWind

joined 5 months ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

A 5-D Chess move truly beyond comprehension by the mortal mind.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 days ago (3 children)

It actually is the most hilarious of ironies that despite what very real harm Thor might have inflicted upon the early stages of the movement through misinformation/mischaracterization; The fact is, I don't think this movement would have come near to exploding the way that it has recently if not for the perfect Rube Goldberg machine of drama surrounding this man in the past 6 months.

Seriously. He could not have Barbara Streisand effected the "Stop Killing Games" movement harder if he tried. It really is such poetic justice. It's a shame that I don't live in the EU or I would gladly sign the initiate myself. Here's to hoping that another EU regulation can have sweeping effects for the US. As a reluctant and very jaded US citizen myself, I harbor no illusions about any real and meaningful consumer protection regulations to ever make it over here. Mega-corpos have simply spent far too much money buying out every level of government, legislature, and regulatory bodies that exist.

Europe really is like a strange beacon of hope for US consumers, as odd as that sounds. Fight the good fight for us as well, brothers.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Thank you for this clarification. This is an extremely important context. "Palestine Action" is the particular name of a very specific organization, so the title of the article is obviously a bit misleading.

Still very worrying and more than a bit concerning, though. Here's to hoping for a future strengthening of UK speech laws. Though, frankly, I'm not so sure about US speech laws anymore. Cheers.

 

If you call them out on this, they will repeatedly deny any and all AI use, resolve the ticket, and threaten to ban your account if you press them further.

Overall, I would suggest to any future readers that you simply file a charge-back with your financial institution due to a breach of contract on Blizzard’s end (Failure to deliver purchased goods). To quote another user -

" You must explicitly contact Blizzard prior to any Chargeback, get in contact with a representative, and receive their written refusal to refund, AFTER you have already demanded refund for LACK OF DESCRIBED AND DECLARED SERVICES OR PRODUCT (no Delivery Clause; they cannot enforce payment for a Service or Product through their fault, that was not Delivered).

Once that step is done, make sure to keep a copy of the conversation (screenshot in addition to requesting that they email you the transcripts), and attach these to the chargeback. Then file said Chargeback."

If more people do this, it will send a clear message to companies like Blizzard that we as consumers are not to be trifled with. Particularly, it costs Blizzard extra whenever legal charge-backs are processed.

I am mostly making this post as a reference to future google searches.

Hopefully this will save you some time in deliberating how to proceed with undelivered digital goods on Blizzard's end. Just demand a refund and then issue a charge back with your financial institutions if and when Blizzard support refuses your refund request.

Notice that Blizzard may try to illegally retaliate against your account for a legal charge back concerning undelivered digital goods. Up to and including permanent closure of the account.

If you're not ready to lose your account or fight for it in small claims court (Which may require personal funds) you might want to reconsider this course of action.

If you have the funds to contest an illegal retaliatory action against your account or otherwise are ready to get rid of Blizzard permanently (As I am). I might recommend the aforementioned actions. Charge-backs really help stick it to the bastards when they refuse to deliver digital goods. They usually just assume that most people will let $10 or so slide. But if enough people hold them accountable. It eventually adds up.

Know that the one thing the hate the most are legal charge-backs. That's why I'm posting this.

Understand, furthermore, that I am not a lawyer, and none of this constitutes legal advise. Hey, do you.

That said. - Charge-back these fraudulent fucks..

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

You see, there's the problem. Traveling to Europe to do these kinds of things is millionaire behavior. Shyiiit, dirty commoners could do that. Ya really gotta climb up there into the billionaire behavior department before you can start doing stuff like this and expecting to get away with it. Be a proper world-class scum bag, at least rent your own private island first. Sheesh. This is like psychopathic villainy 101 here. Unbelievable.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 months ago

Okay, I feel like the part that people are skipping over is the "cooperating with authorities on legal data requests" part. No. As a privacy company; You DO NOT save and store ANY information apart from what is crucially and imminently necessary to run your service. Anything beyond that is a blatant conflict of interests and should not be trusted. Corruption and data sharing that CAN happen, WILL happen when it comes to data security based companies. Full stop.