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.

Guesstimate based on the feel of it… I think a scientific study is warranted and I volunteer to help guesstimate.

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.

Or cup size, if still in the source container.

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…

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?

Those are some loose standards… I only accept pasta at 1.21 Jiggawatts and 88mph.

To inflate the sex dolls… He prefers doing chicks when they’re high.

That’s the name of my metal band…

Their other legal argument made more sense… They have nothing to do with food preparation done by one of the tenants.

I have less issues with landlords with commercial tenants… A lot of retailers do not want to own real estate or maintain properties. Residential landlords, on the other hand…

You don’t? The malls, outlets, and high-end shopping centers around here certainly maintain a website as well as signage for their tenants.

If someone stopped at a Rest Stop and Baskin Robins errantly put tree nuts in their dish, I don’t of any legal precident making the Rest Stop owner liable.