Anyone who’s handled a suspended account on Twitch, Twitter, or every other platform can attest to the dizzying feats required to get these accounts again—that’s, if you happen to’re fortunate sufficient to even get them again within the first place. Unless you handle to get some type of media attention, victims of this concern are sometimes left with little to no recourse in opposition to the social media websites concerned.

Enter DoNotPay, an app that bills itself as “the world’s first robot lawyer.” For $36-a-month, the service will format letters to assist customers cope with a whole slew of points, from submitting insurance coverage claims and canceling gymnasium memberships to filing requests below the Freedom of Information Act. And sure, getting your social media account again is on the checklist, too.

“These platforms prioritize legal cases,” DoNotPay CEO Joshua Browder told Engadget. “When you’re just writing into customer service, they don’t really take it seriously.”

The concept is {that a} letter that’s despatched to an organization’s authorized division is much extra prone to get observed, even when that letter’s largely written by an automated bot. It helps that as a part of this enchantment, DoNotPay will ask you for particular particulars about your unfair ban, and attempt to “match” these particulars with some type of authorized precedent.

These letters embrace a deadline for the corporate to reply. If unanswered, DoNotPay’s web site explains the case can escalate to lawsuit territory as wanted.

But even earlier than your case reaches that time—or even when your enchantment is finally unsuccessful—Browder defined that the service may supply different paths of recourse for you. One possibility is strongarming a platform into handing over account information, like messages or footage, which may have been swept up within the ban. That manner, even if you happen to aren’t in a position to get your complete account again, at the very least you may get again sufficient information to get again in your toes and begin over with a unique username.

Ultimately although, this isn’t going to be a service that simply anybody hit by a banhammer can use. As DoNotPay points out, accounts that get banned for reliable causes—violating a platform’s phrases of service, for instance, or committing some type of unlawful act on the platform—gained’t get something out of submitting an enchantment:

In the case of an enchantment, you must clarify your conduct and why you consider the suspension of your account was a mistake, unjustified, and flawed.

If the corporate already offered you with a cause in your account ban or suspension and refused to vary their resolution, there shall be no level in interesting once more because the preliminary reply is last.

We don’t know if it will work however if you happen to’re actually determined, the $36 payment could be value a strive.