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I wholeheartedly agree with your sentiment but I don't think this will hold up in case of account deletions or bans. Let say your 'attention', using the servic
by c0balt 5y ago
I wholeheartedly agree with your sentiment but I don't think this will hold up in case of account deletions or bans.
Let say your 'attention', using the service, is used to pay for 'goods', account/ access to service.
How is the revenue derived fron 'attention'? By the attention being spent on preselected content, e.g. ads, that are choosen by the platform. One could argue that revoking access to a service from the platform side is okay since the attention is not being 'spent' after the removal or ban.
It might be feasible to expect that services, like an email account, are not taken away abitrarly but 'just because it's profitable' is not a sound argument. Making yourself dependent on a platform is not the problem of the platform.