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Network Solutions Opts Customer Into $1,850 Security Service
An anonymous reader writes "Brent Simmons has posted about a troubling email he received from Network Solutions. He registered two domains with them in the 1990s, and the domains remain registered today. Simmons just received an email informing him that he'd been opted into some kind of security service called Weblock, and that he would be billed $1,850 for the first year. Further, he would be billed $1,350 for every year after the first. Believing it to be a scam, he contacted the official Network Solutions account on Twitter. They said it was real. The email even said he couldn't opt out except by making a phone call."
Don't pay. When they try to do anything about it, sue.
Call collect.
Are you saying that a company should be unable to shed customers it doesn't want? Your way smells faintly of Marxism to me. B-)
Molesting captive giant squid?
Just goes to show you that any thread can get hit with Rule 34.
Faster! Faster! Faster would be better!
In a free market there is no fraud.
Free market, bitches! Suck it you socialist faggots!
Free market means exactly that - if the vendors do something despicable the customers stop doing business with them and choose other vendors who won't do similarly despicable things to them.
Exactly. Like, if I don't like Comcast I can just switch to... uh...
Molesting captive giant squid?
Just goes to show you that any thread can get hit with Rule 34.
Wait. That isn't normal?
I see how this might be confusing. In anime the squid molests the people. The tables are turned in this episode of Netwaste Solutions. Can't wait for teh 3D version so I can finally see that squid get his.
You are free to start your own provider, and dig your own trench to the nearest CO.
You are free to be off the web, too, or use dial-up into another state.
Free market doesn't prevent abusive monopolies, as long as they only abuse their customers and not their symbolic competitors.
I am _not_ free to go around digging trenches everywhere That is totally true. I got halfway across my neighbor's yard before being shot at.
Having to work for a living is the root of all evil.
No, that was Joseph Smith.
"All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent." [Thomas Jefferson]
Did you at least return fire from your dug-in position?
I am _not_ free to go around digging trenches everywhere That is totally true. I got halfway across my neighbor's yard before being shot at.
That's the reason we got much better internet in Europe. With our gun laws around we don't get shot while getting us better net.
"But look, you found the notice didn't you?" "Yes," said Arthur, "yes I did. It was on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying 'Beware of the Leopard'."