[爆卦] 臉書劫持用戶IG的用戶名稱

Thea-Mai Baumann had posted to Instagram using the @metaverse handle for
nearly a decade when her account was disabled on November 2.

(以下機翻+稍微修飾):Thea-Mai Baumann 在她的帳戶於 11 月 2 日被禁用時，已使用@metaverse用戶名稱在Instagram 上發帖近十年。

"Your account has been blocked for pretending to be someone else,"
the app told her.
"你的帳號因冒充別人而被封鎖," 該App告訴她。

Baumann wasn't exactly sure what had happened, but the timing was curious.
The account block came just days after Facebook had announced its new name,
Meta. CEO Mark Zuckerberg said the name reflected the company's new focus on
its vision of the metaverse, a virtual world meant to facilitate commerce,
communication, and more. Baumann's @metaverse handle was suddenly a hot
commodity.

Baumann並不確定發生了什麼事，但是時機點很有意思。
帳號封鎖是在 Facebook 宣布其新名稱 Meta幾天後發生的。
CEO Mark Zuckerberg表示，該名稱反映了公司對元宇宙願景的新關注，這是一個旨在促進商業、溝通交流等的虛擬世界。
Baumann的@metaverse用戶名稱突然成為熱門商品。

"This account is a decade of my life and work. I didn't want my contribution
to the metaverse to be wiped from the internet," Baumann told The New York
Times. "That happens to women in tech, to women of color in tech, all the
time."

"這帳號是我生活和工作的十年。
我不希望我對元宇宙的貢獻從互聯網上抹去，"
Baumann告訴紐約時報。
"這一直發生在科技界的女性身上、有色人種的女性身上"

In 2012, when Baumann started Metaverse Makeovers, she grabbed the Instagram
handle @metaverse to showcase her art and technology. The Australian had
created an app that would display virtual holograms over her company's
fingernail designs. She envisioned making an entire line of clothing and
accessories that would be virtually augmented. After five years, funding ran
dry and she began to use her Instagram account to promote her other work.

2012 年，當 Baumann 創辦 Metaverse Makeovers時，她利用了Instagram帳號@metaverse來展示她的藝術和技術。
澳大利亞人創造了一個APP，
可以在她公司的指甲設計上顯示虛擬全像。
她設想製作一整個系列的服裝和配件，
這些服裝和配飾幾乎可增加價值。
五年後，資金枯竭，
她開始使用她的Instagram 帳號推廣她的其他作品。

Baumann's @metaverse account went relatively unnoticed over the years,
attracting fewer than 1,000 followers. Then Facebook changed its name.

多年來，Baumann的@metaverse帳號相對被忽視，吸引了不到1000名關注者。
然後Facebook改名了。

On October 28, Zuckerberg announced the change in his Connect 2021 keynote,
saying that the Facebook name "just doesn't encompass everything we do."
Zuckerberg had been selling his idea of the metaverse for months, telling TheVerge in an interview last summer that "the metaverse is a vision that spans
many companies—the whole industry," he said. "It's certainly not
something that any one company is going to build."

10 月 28 日，
Zuckerberg在他的Connect 2021主題演講中宣布了這一變化，
稱Facebook名稱"並沒有涵蓋我們所做的一切"。
Zuckerberg幾個月來一直在推銷他對元宇宙的想法，
他在去年夏天的一次採訪中告訴The Verge，
"元宇宙是一個跨越許多公司——整個行業的願景，"他說。
"這肯定不是任何一家公司都會建立的。"

Baumann, with her years of experience running a company based around and
named after the concept, would seemingly be an ideal partner in that venture.

Baumann擁有多年經營一家以該概念為基礎並
以該概念命名的公司的經驗，
她似乎是該企業的理想合作夥伴。

After Zuckerberg's keynote, Baumann started receiving unsolicited messages
on Instagram, including some that offered to buy @metaverse from her. One
person delivered a warning, though: "fb isn't gonna buy it, they're gonna
take it."

在Zuckerberg的主題演講之後，
Baumann開始在Instagram上收到不請自來的消息，包括一些主動向她購買@metaverse的消息。
不過，有人發出警告：「臉書不會買，他們會拿走它。」

It's unclear whether Meta/Facebook had anything to do with Baumann losing
access to her account. Baumann attempted to verify her identity with
Instagram, but she didn't receive a reply for weeks. She tried working with
an intellectual property attorney to see what rights she had to get her
account back, but she couldn't afford their services.

目前尚不清楚Meta/Facebook是否與Baumann無法存取她的帳號有關。
Baumann試圖通過Instagram驗證她的身份，
但她已經好幾個星期沒有收到回應了。
她嘗試與知識產權律師合作，
看看她有什麼權利可以找回她的帳號，
但她負擔不起他們的服務。

Once a journalist got wind of the story, though, things changed. On December
4, two days after a New York Times reporter contacted Meta about the account,Baumann suddenly regained access to @metaverse.

記者一聽到這個故事的風聲，事情就變了。
12 月 4 日，也就是《紐約時報》記者就該帳號聯繫Meta兩天後，Baumann突然重新獲得了@metaverse的存取權限。

"This account was incorrectly removed for impersonation, and we've now
restored it," Stephanie Otway, a Meta company spokesperson, told Ars. "We're
sorry that this happened."

Meta公司發言人Stephanie Otway告訴Ars：
"這個帳號因冒充而被錯誤地刪除，
我們現在已經恢復了它。我們很抱歉發生這種情況。"

Baumann's experience could have a chilling effect on companies' and
individuals' willingness to participate on social media for fear of having
their online identity arbitrarily seized. "Facebook has essentially
unfettered discretion to appropriate people's Instagram user names,"
Rebecca Giblin, director of the Intellectual Property Research Institute of
Australia at the University of Melbourne, told The New York Times. "There
can be good reasons for that—for example, if they're offensive or
impersonating someone in a way that causes confusion."

Baumann的經歷可能會對公司和個人參與社群媒體的意願產生寒蟬效應，
因為他們害怕自己的線上id被任意扣押。
墨爾本大學澳大利亞知識產權研究所所長Rebecca Giblin
告訴紐約時報：
"Facebook 基本上可以不受限制地自行決定盜用人們的Instagram用戶名。"
"這可能有很好的理由——例如，
如果他們冒犯他人或以引起混亂的方式冒充某人。"

"But the @metaverse example highlights the breadth of this power,"
Giblin said. Users "essentially have no rights."

"但@metaverse的例子凸顯了這種力量的廣度，"
Giblin說。用戶"基本上沒有權利"。

簡單來說
臉書不想花錢買啦
鎖一鎖你的帳號
平民老百姓有多少能力跟這種巨頭打官司
大部分遇到這種情況
就是自認倒楣
摸一摸鼻子放棄帳號
再創新帳號或者放棄臉書的平台
臉書就是在賭這個機率
誰曉得，
對方跑去跟紐時合作
東窗事發
趕緊回復帳號存取權力

大事化小
小事化無
安啦

黨有說你的用戶名稱是屬於用戶的嗎?
你的用戶名稱
黨想收回
先凍個十年
讓你放棄~~

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