| > As written, the tweet contained no truth whatsoever. "I forgot to update my Apple Card autopay info" True. "Re-enabling them takes 3-5+ business days." True. It's also true that Apple was holding his accounts hostage, just perhaps for a different reason than he believed. Yes, and so his tweet was complete bullshit. > A lot of people seem to be ok with Apple holding his accounts hostage Nobody except you is talking about accounts being “held hostage”, so it’s just not true to say anyone is OK with that. You are misrepresenting people here. > From my perspective, there can be no good justification whatsoever for Apple locking Dustin out, and thus the precise reason why it happened is no defense for it. This is obviously an absurd position. Refusing service after non-payment is completely normal business practice. Of course there can be good reasons for it. It is helpful to know that you going to condemn Apple’s actions regardless of the truth. It would have been more honest for you to just say that before. This makes perfect sense of why you weren’t interested in Dustin’s side of the story. Generally I would not assume this of anyone because it’s uncharitable and one can be wrong even if someone comes off that way, so it’s refreshing to see you openly admit it. > [EDIT] By the way, I just search https://twitter.com/search?q=to%3A%40dcurtis&src=typed_query... and the very first result was "Get fucked you liar". That's just the tip of the iceberg of the comments on the internet. Very unfortunate, but not clear what this has to do with the conversations we are having on HN. The tweet that they are responding to is clearly false, but there isn’t any evidence that Justin lied. It seems much more likely that he made a mistake or posted in the heat of the moment. It was unwise of him to post such an obviously inflammatory statement without being certain about it. If he were to simply acknowledge his mistake, it would cast those bullying tweet in an even worse light than they currently are. I can see that you have been truly upset by what you have seen on Twitter. |