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There are checks and balances with the gov though. A sitting member of parliament can't decide to freeze all my assets: A judge must do that after due process.

There are checks and balances with the gov though. A sitting member of parliament can't decide to freeze all my assets: A judge must do that after due process. FB (and by extension any private entity) can ban my account for nothing if they like.

TeMPOraL 7y ago
> FB (and by extension any private entity) can ban my account for nothing if they like. And Google actually does that. I'm not bringing up Google to shift the example from Facebook, but only to remind everyone that there already is at least one company controlling important aspects of lives of many people, that's known for shutting down people's account seemingly without reason (maybe there are good reasons, but they don't communicate them well) and without recourse (except posting on HN and hoping some googler will spot it). So what you describe isn't a hypothetical problem.