> Email account deletion and recovery should be regulated by law. I think the problem goes even deeper than that. No non-state actor, who holds no democratic

> Email account deletion and recovery should be regulated by law. I think the problem goes even deeper than that. No non-state actor, who holds no democratic mandate of any kind, should hold the kind of power over citizens that Google holds. Regulation is a ship that has kind of sailed, in my mind. The kind of regulation that we now recognize we need would have had to be in place 20 years ago. ...mostly antitrust stuff, but also specialized things like privacy / data protection and "due process" for things like account suspensions etc. If such regulation had been in place, it would have prevented the formation of an entity such as Google in the first place, and we would instead have a healthy system of smaller players competing on who does the best job at providing the kinds of functions to society that Google provides. Now that we are in the unfortunate situation we are in, I think it might be necessary to consider nationalizing the whole thing and putting in place governance with a democratic mandate.