If itโs about this, this is a breach of Outlier and Scale Labs terms of use, not the government. Thatโs why when a third party is caught using an account, the account gets deactivated or suspended permanently. The only time you may face govt/visa related issues is if your visa type doesnโt permit freelance work in the first place. Yaโll should educate yourselves properly, outlier is basically the same as upwork/fiverr but concentrated on AI-training.
And if you still donโt feel comfortable setting up an account, no wam! Iโm sure nobody has a gun to your head.
So I attended the police โinviteโ and saw the petition written against I and @PurityAddereth, the other victim was indeed by @chowdeck and defended by @OlaniwunAjayiLP lawyer @OdiaseYehoshua. In my opinion, the petition is an attempt to put us away, and silence us. The petition accused us their victims of trying to bomb their offices, kill their workers, specifically Victor, their Lagos operations manager and that we were a danger to all their workers and riders. These charges written there were conspiracy, threat to life and cyber bullying. But the makeup of the charges add up to nothing short of terrorism. This is why I said an attempt to put us away. The sentence for those can be similar to treason and attract a life sentence. They equated a writer, editor and publisher, and a fashion designer using their right to free speech after suffering gruesome damage, to people who can bomb their offices and kill their workers nation wide. You see where this is going with the cyber crime act? When I tell you this is an attack on all of us, our right to freedom of speech, dessent and criticism. Tell me how TF I am going to bomb anywhere when I need help bathing?
This is an abuse of the police process and a weaponization of the cybercrime act to punish dissent, criticism and free speech against writers, journalists and citizens as so many civil and human rights and other organizations have noted, including the US embassy, UK embassy, etc. so I will exhort to you all Nigerians and all in the international community to write to these embassies and ambassadors to see how this issue they have complained about is being used in this case to oppress what is Africaโs most decorated SFF writer-editor-publisher, including many others. You can write to them at these addresses in the pictures attached here,and handles below. Write to these international organizations to sanction through visas and other processes all those, persons and organizations in and of the Nigerian state, weaponizing the cybercrime act to silence criticism and free speech. The voice of everyone of us matters and free speech and the instruments of democracy must be protected.
Their CEO @LordBinary_'s address says San Francisco via X. You can't be in a place where you enjoy free speech, while bullying others here and stiffling their own by abusing the apparatus of law that is being misused to ruin this country further. So you all should write to the US and other embassies and state departments, all interested in protecting and punishing the violation of free speech and the instruments of democracy, to look into this. Unless this is now Russia or China. @USinNigeria@HCCanNigeria@UKinNigeria@RMontgomeryUK@NorAmbNigeria@HCSalvaggio
And I want you all to join your voices in insisting that Chowdeck
1. Show the public the petition they filed
2. Withdraw it formally
3. Issue a written apology
4. Release a public statement taking accountability
5. Call for the repealing of the Cybercrime act
Have you noticed the fact that Chowdeck, it's CEO hasn't said anything? What company accused of things these serious, for four months now, with a full pr department and board cannot say a word, even to the public actively demanding answers.
And to be clear, I attribute my accident and spinal fracture to the failures of Chowdeck and it's team. Feb 14 when I suffered the accident was a day when their love rush promo was in effect. They deliberately instigated a process that heightened movement and traffic without putting guardrails on this โrushโ. One of the leading causes of accidents is fatigue. There are not enough guard rails on how many hours a rider can work. If anything they seem to instigate more activity, more โrushโ. And that particular day, they did even more so. I blame the company, and @LordBinary_ . And until they take responsibility in all the ways they should, I will not stop speaking about this. And I will not be silenced. We must fight this, and the cybercrime act.
@SpacemanAp Nobody is asking any student to open outlier because it's basically useless doing so, 20hrs weekly while your mates are doing 7-10 hours daily, also as a visa holder you know what's acceptable for you visa and what's not, it's not compulsory, you can just say no
I wonder how you were able to get VISA to which ever country you are in, because ignoramus thoughts just full this your tweet.
Why people dont make it in life is when they assume, every opportunity out there is a scam, if you sign up on Outlier or Handshake Ai today, you are not doing something illegal
Of course we know you guys pay tax, and weather the money came directly or indirectly we know you must account for it at the end of the year, this is why we give account owner the highest earning % sharing.
With this, no one is cheating who and no one is doing something illegal.
@Dejman09 You can make an argument about losing some benefits because you've crossed an earning threshold, if you see guaranteed $2k every month it can cover those benefits you are not getting again
Dem just dey convulse
@Dejman09 Learned educated people just dey yarn dust, visa this and that, like if you are an immigrant in a country and knows your visa limitations why will you go against it? If your visa can't carry it dont register it's simple, money earned can cover you taxes
@Tance_Essence@Obumnemetg This was the angle I expected people going against it will come from, if your visa allows you to do so there's nothing bad about it, if you know your visa limitations and do it you are to blame, it's a legal platform not a fraudulent one
@SalvatoreofU@iamcomputer__@Benn_X1 This actually a simple case if your visa Dosent allow you do not do it, if you do it anything wey you see you collect, but if your visa allows you to have side hustles, you do it and pay tax from the money earned I don't know why people are convulsing over it
@doja_crown@sepril23NG But the money coming from the outlier will cover the taxes incured from the extra money, abi they don't want to pay tax from money they made?
Let me explain the difference between ETHICS and LEGALITY. Please read carefully.
Shortly after youth service, I applied to Shell and began the Shell Recruitment process.
Passed the Shl aptitude test and was basically gliding through the process in readiness for the Shell Recruitment Day (SRD) which was the next and final major stage.
One of those evenings in my very broke state, I got an email from Shell that went (paraphrased): "per our corporate principles, we value honesty, please answer this in all honesty: do you have a relation in Shell...?"
Instead of me to ask questions, I was like damn, Shell will see me as very good and honest, I rushed to click yes.
5 mins later, rejection letter, after clicking on submit. I nearly mad!!
I DID EVERYTHING RIGHT. Passed all stages up to that point.
I remember a mentor telling me later, "but you and this relation don't even share the same surname," so there was no way to find out. Saying yes was the ethical thing to do, but saying no doesn't imply criminality or fraud, just not ethical.
That incident taught me a bitter lesson. See, I share tips that you don't hear out there based off MY experiences.
From the Moniepoint saga, I've kept it real and shared MY experiences. Some who haven't seen what I've seen argue. Others who know the game, but know that's how they got to where they, heavily despise me on here.
But at least, let me give back to younger folks who are completely clueless about how the world works. It comes inbuilt in some, but others need to learn it. BE WISE!