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> If Microsoft terminates your account, your programming career is over. Why wouldn't you just get another account?
by toast0 1y ago
> If Microsoft terminates your account, your programming career is over.
Why wouldn't you just get another account?
- themacguffinman 1y agoAll major platforms have mechanisms to identify ban evasion. It's not so easy to create another account when, for example, they ask for a phone number.
- TuxSH 1y agoSlightly unrelated but GH's ToS clearly only permit one free account per person and I've heard they sometimes enforce this
- drnick1 1y agoIn the U.S. at least, it is trivial to buy a new SIM anonymously. But really, you should refuse to use any platform that requires a phone number in the first place. These companies make it implicitly very clear that they want to control you and extract every bit of information that they can from you.
- EvanAnderson 1y agoAge verification laws in the US are chipping away at Internet anonymity. You might not be able to get another account because your legal identity might be required (and can be banned).
- kube-system 1y agoThis isn’t just a US thing. Many countries require KYC for a lot of online accounts