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If you use their service, you're subject to their rules. It doesn't matter that in enforcing their arbitrary rules they're killing your business or even stealin
by joesmo 11y ago
If you use their service, you're subject to their rules. It doesn't matter that in enforcing their arbitrary rules they're killing your business or even stealing your assets. Big companies like Paypal and Amazon can do whatever they want, even break the law, with no repercussions. They can close your account for legit reasons, bullshit reasons, or no reason at all.
As a business, relying on such companies is one of the biggest risks you take. Use Paypal? Risk losing access to your funds. Use Amazon? Risk losing access to your computing resources, shopping platform, etc. You have no recourse if you anger the big gods of the Internet. Best not to depend on them at all or the smaller gods that also depend on them. Paypal's not taking payment from VPNs? Use Bitcoin and cancel that Netflix account. Why pay ten bucks a month to Netflix so they can pressure Paypal into shutting down legitimate businesses when you can pay it to a legitimate business (VPN) and watch whatever you want? Sure, torrenting is probably illegal, but one method shuts down small businesses and is immoral while the other one hurts no one ("losses" from piracy are not real). You may not agree with this conclusion, but there is no doubt that this is the direction of thought companies like Paypal, Netflix, and Amazon are steering their consumers in--on purpose.