Something like this happened to me and it has cost me $20k+ over time, https://areoform.wordpress.com/2021/08/06/on-apples-expanded...

Mercury unblocked my accounts because their founder is a very kind man who bothered to verify what the document actually says rather than falling back to, "Computer says no." But everywhere else? De nada. Computer says no.

And it's not even me. It's a fuzzy match with someone in their 50s. Doesn't matter. Computer says no.

And I can't "get off the list" because it's not me who's on the list. The computer will always say no.

In the long run, I'll be fine. I think. But I'll pay $100k+ by the time it's over. These systems are being steadily expanded, as the dumbest incarnations of themselves. We've gone from Thin Thread https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ThinThread to crappy fuzzy matches on shoddy data executed on with 0 diligence. It's the stupidest possible timeline.

I think many, many other people will be sharing our fate soon, which is partly why I've been writing about this slow rolling train wreck in motion in bits and pieces.

Terrorism went from "kill one person to scare millions" to "stir shit up to cripple the adversary with the costs of prevention".

"The evil, I can tolerate; but the stupidity..." -Hubert Farnsworth

How can you possibly afford to pay $100k for something like this? That’s so much money!