alt Hacker NewsAnd also it would be good to limit the ban duration with a law. For example manslaughter can be 5 years in prison. So if google decide to ban your account because you send your doctor a photo of your son for medical purposes, they are not allowed to ban you for more than 5 years and then they must restore full access to your account.
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rationalist • yesterday at 3:01 AM
How about, if they ban someone, they must give their evidence to the government to prosecute the alleged crime, and if the government refuses (within X time) or loses, then the account is restored.
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I think for these big companies as well, they should have to have a more targeted punishment. Since having access to an Apple or Google device is increasingly mandatory in many countries (often as a result of government legislation!), getting that cut off is more impactful than other services.
So like, if you get caught, red handed, absolutely 100% you, performing gift card fraud, the maximum punishment from Apple should still be getting banned from the gift card system (buying or redeeming). And if they want more consequences for you because they think you’re running a fraud ring, they should have to sue you like a physical store would. But not lock you out of the rest of the ecosystem. Otherwise you get the false positives getting the digital death sentence Apple tried to hand out here