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Plenty of facets on this one, and I fear they all require changing and enforcing legislation and to fix them. * Google provides a good product free of charge t
by hyperman1 4y ago
Plenty of facets on this one, and I fear they all require changing and enforcing legislation and to fix them.
* Google provides a good product free of charge to everybody, but claims it can withdraw the offer to anyone with no notice and without giving any reason. The law should require more rights, guarantees and due process even for free service providers. At minimum, the right to recover my data, the right to have some time to fix the problem, the right to have everyone following the same rules, knowing the rules and knowing the exact violation, and some basic warrantees. As a parallel: Malls are open for everyone just like Google, and it still doesn't allow them to ban people at random. The USA learned with black people how quickly this becomes ugly. But a mall still can remove customers too troubling, the cops can be called, and both mall and customer can sue if it is really worth it.
* People should pay (and be able to pay) for a product that is worth it. The services provided by Google are easily worth money.
* It's hard to ban anyone on the internet without a stable identity, government provided or not. People just take a new identity and come back. This is especially sensitive in the USA, but it causes all kinds of trouble. Maybe coupling the ID to a payment is an alternative, so you can get a new ID if you pay for it. €10 /id / year would probably be enough to shut out almost every troublemaker, and the law can deal with what's left.
* The child porn laws are insane and should be changed. It is not normal that you can send a picture to someone, and the law requires the receiver should go to jail even without him knowing anything happened. Under such laws, the google 'scorched earth' policy is the only option they have.
* EULAs need to cease existing. If I buy an Andriod phone, I give money to the manufacturer, the manufacturer gives money to Google. That means I should have a right to access google play etc without all kinds of EULAs making the device I bought non-functional on any whim from Google. Just paying should be enough. It used to be that license agreements existed only between companies, and were deemed too complicated for ordinary consumers. The 'End User' aspect has to die off. Normal copyright will still protect the software just as it does with books and DVDs, so there really is no need.
- ec109685 4y agoIn this person’s case, they were paying Google for their Android phone and Google FI phone service, so it wasn’t even a free product they got banned from. Also, see Apple’s scanning stance. Google isn’t obligated to scan and report to law enforcement.
- rightbyte 4y agoChild pornography together with drugs is probably the easiest way to frame someone for a crime. Especially in the computer world where people could be framed randomly and automatically by viruses without any motive.
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