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"How do folk fall for that twitch DMCA scam?" I see people ask. I dunno. Why would people think that an email out of nowhere about the big scary thing might be from the org that set up the big scary system that just reaches down and tells you its decision with no involvement or recourse or warning?

When you set up scary, arbitrary systems with no transparency or ability to communicate back to that system, where your only interaction with it is when it decides to strike you? You create a big shadowy gap bad actors can hide in, and then that gap becomes SCARY and empowers those actors even more

Everyone absolutely needs scam literacy and the circuit breaker in their brain that pops and goes "Stop. Evaluate, then panic" and has for years, but this is a learned skill and it getting someone who has that circuit fail to pop is NOT the fault of the victim.

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