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Unfortunately at this point that redirect back to home on login that I discovered after changing my password is still there, so I doubt I can change any part of my account details now; it's just going to sit there until they decide to actually delete it (if ever). But I did manage to change the profile description and stream title to make it clear that I am waiting for the account to be deleted before the redirect was put in place.

I didn't actually connect their shadiness about deleting my account with gender and am honestly not convinced that this is it. Sure, they were kind of pushy about promoting the site to women, but there is actually no gender identification on my profile other than my profile picture. I can't remember if gender was specified somewhere in my account settings but then not publicly displayed at this point.




Suggestion:

Write a Cease and Desist letter to

    Livecoding.tv (Livecoding Ltd)
    20-22 Wenlock Road
    London, N1 7GU
    England
That should get them to stop.

A letter such as this costs less than a Euro, and means they have no excuse not to act on it.

Otherwise you can try sending them a fax, that usually also has better chances at success with businesses.

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I kinda want to move my twitch streams over to livecoding just to be able to get into this deletion mess and send lawyers after them now...


Wait what, they're in the UK?

This is clearly data protection stuff. I've taken screen shots and poked the information commissioner.


That's odd, their domain name suggests they are based in the small island nation of Tuvalu.


There are more oddities like that:

The government of the state of Schleswig-Holstein in Germany uses for most official websites the domain .sh, which actually belongs to Saint Helena.

At this point almost all domains on .sh actually belong to companies or governmental entities in Schleswig-Holstein, the remaining domains mostly belong to geeks using it due to the similarity to the file ending .sh for shell files.

Examples:

- http://www.nah.sh/ (Official transit agency)

- http://www.studentenwerk.sh/ (Official Student Service Agency, operates dormitories, etc)

- https://www.wir-bewegen.sh/ (Kickstarter for public projects, operated by the government; one example is "a 3D model of the city for blind people as map, publicly accessible next to the train station")

Many more such cases exist all around the world, it is... weird.


> Many more such cases exist all around the world

Yep. The Minnesota House of Representatives and Senate use http://www.house.mn/ and http://www.senate.mn/ respectively. It's really strange to see a government agency use a TLD belonging to a foreign country.


Also: .nu is owned by Niue, but is mostly used by Swedish companies (nu is swedish for now). It was even taken over by IIS/.SE in 2013.


.nu is common in the Netherlands as well, it means the same thing in Dutch.


By that logic, Libya probably has the most active startup scene of any country right now.


You do know that's what the top level domains were actually for, right?


I don't disagree! Most countries' registries don't have requirements around geographical presence, so here we are.


Rule #1: spammers lie.




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