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Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: Charter uses bad credit threats to corral ex-subscribers; Adobe uses copyfraud to preserve spyware; India funded a starving kids' app, but not food; and more!

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Charter uses bad credit threats to corral ex-subscribers: "Resubscribe or we'll keep trashing your credit report."



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13 Oct
The term "#solutionism" gets thrown around a lot. Any time an attempt to address a problem fails, it's easy to point at the technological elements of the failure and deride the whole enterprise as a solutionist muddle.

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If you'd like an unrolled version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

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Which is a pity, because solutionism is real, and it's a scourge. I mean, it can literally kill.

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The death of Adobe Flash in January 2021 was long overdue; Adobe's hyper-proprietary interactive runtime was a source of persistent, terrifying security vulnerabilities that had harmed web users for decades.

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But the demise of Flash also meant that all the Flash-based media that had been created since its debut (as 1995's "Futuresplash") was snuffed out, orphaned, unplayable and lost to history.

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I'm more of a Charter-@GetSpectrum hostage than a customer: I need the internet to earn my living, and my town (#Burbank) has signed an exclusive deal with Charter, so I send them $134.99/mo for some of the worst internet in California.

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It turns out that Charter doesn't stop abusing you when you stop being a customer: the company is now sending threatening letters ("offers") to ex-customers demanding that they sign up again on pain of a bad credit report.

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That's not how Charter puts it, of course. They say they're extending a lifeline to ex-customers whose years-unpaid bills are in collection, trashing their credit.

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