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There should be a legal avenue required for shutting down peoples' accounts introduced along with privacy controls. Google, Apple, and some of the other OAuth

• CamperBob2 3y ago
  There will be, eventually, because these companies refuse to accept the responsibilities that go with the social power they've accumulated. Right now nobody at Google or Apple has any incentive whatsoever to care about collateral damage when a user's entire account is locked. That will obviously have to change. The change doesn't have to come by way of government mandate, but that seems to be how they want to play it. They will have no one to blame but themselves when they're on the receiving end of the collateral damage that will accompany such legislation.
  • justinclift 3y ago
    There was a US government push a few years ago to treat Google (etc) as public utilities, with the same responsibilities to users as any other utility. eg support for users, reasonable conflict resolution, etc. * https://www.rankscience.com/blog/why-google-should-be-regulated-as-a-public-utility https://www.rankscience.com/blog/why-google-should-be-regula... There were plenty of articles about it online at the time. The above is just one I found in a quick search now. Unfortunately, the legislation didn't pass. And now, Google (etc) are further emboldened...
    • CamperBob2 3y ago
      It'll happen. They will jerk the wrong Senator around at some point, or one of his/her relatives. Then Sundar will be summoned to DC to explain why a trillion-dollar company can't afford to answer their phones.
      • justinclift 3y ago
        People have been saying that for years (decades?) now. There's no real evidence to support anything changing though. :/