This guy went to kill his ex-boss and ex-coworkers… Don’t know if the 2 migrants were collateral damage or a secondary target.

This is definitely a warning on AI use for decision-making… BrandShield’s AI identified and reported the issue using AI. Apparently IWantMyName also used an automated process to disable the site. Linode had a human in the mix and did the right thing.

Ultimately, this did more damage to the Funko brand, which is the opposite of what you want from a brand protection platform. I’d expect this to ripple through both BrandShield and Funko as to how they handle these cases and which platform they utilize.

Wow, way to spin… I’m currently looking at Brand protection for my company but have crossed BrandShield off the list… Companies hire third parties to handle brand protection because it doesn’t make sense to staff internally.

Funko and other companies don’t want their brand used without their permission.

This wasn’t necessarily showing them in a bad light, it was a fan page, but it appeared like it was an official Funko entity, imitating the Funko Fusion Dev site.

The issue was reported to both Linode and the name provider. Itch took down the page. Linode contacted Itch and closed the case after the response. The name provider ignored Itch’s response and went nuclear… Funko contacted the name provider to clarify and get itch back online.

Terrible analogy…

Brand protection is something that a lot of companies care about and many use third parties to handle it.

A much better analogy is if you were to hire security guards to protect your person and property and an overzealous guard kills someone. That happens often enough, we know the guard is on the hook, but the boss is rarely charged unless he was micro-managing it.

They blamed the service provider… BrandShield called for removal of the page, not the whole site.

Some people are looking past the partner or putting “partner” in quotes.

Funko doesn’t handle these takedown requests, they hired BrandShield for this. BrandShield definitely went overboard and their reputation is at risk.

I’ve shopped around for brand protection in the past when scammers registered a domain name with my company’s name in it, and used it to do fake job offers. We got the domain suspended by contacting the registrar, but we didn’t know about it until it was reported to us.

You don’t have any kids… any more…

There is nobody here that doesn’t understand the premise of the original thought… It does not invalidate a joke about evolved monkeys.

Totally expected Simpsons reference…

A qualified elector is a different thing than a voter. Electors are those that are selected by the parties to travel and participate in the Electoral College. The voters determine which set of electors get selected.

Most of the super rich don’t make their Monday through wages.

Certainly they must make their Tuesday through wages?

I watched the whole video… Mowed down like 90 deer in a row.

Love the CX-50…

I acknowledge the cell connectivity in the car costs Mazda money to keep running. Most cars with that kind of connectivity charge for it. But, I think 10/month is too much.

My bad, I looked up Western Samoa and got redirected to regular Samoa not American Samoa…

Hopefully the Kender is not too angry and won’t “borrow” all my stuff.

I’ll give that a shot… Does that mean the US also owns much of Europe and any country in the UN?

Also not part of the US

Western Samoa is no longer… And how is it part of the US?

In the US, the experience differs drastically, but you only see the long lines in the news… My location has short lines, old retirees running the polls.

It differs by state, mine is 7am to 8pm in addition to the preceding 2 weeks for early voting.

International and UK law are similar in this regard…