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>>benhur+(OP)
This happens again and again. I have had that happen to my twitter account. I see this regulary on HN.

My suspicion is that this is mostly happening because platforms that big like google or twitter rely very heavily on machine learning and other AI related technology to ban people. Because honestly, the amount of spam and abuse that are likely happening on these platforms has to be mind boggling high.

So I get why they would try to automate bans.

But after years and years of regular high profile news of false positives, one would think they eventually would change something.

I mean the guy had direct business with Google going on....

Why would they continue like that. Isn't there one single PR person at Google?

>>p410n3+Y2
Maybe the solution is to not have single platforms that are this big.

>>poison+X4
Then move off. It's not the only solution.

There are alternatives to all these: Search, Email, Game streaming, Online doc editing, Etc

>>Guthur+R5
> Then move off.

Great, let's legislate that you can switch providers but you have to be able to keep your email address, like we did with phones.

>>Feepin+Q8
You already can, if you use an email provider like gmail with your own domain name.

>>aphexa+4a
Which literally puts you on all autoreject spam lists because SPF and DNSSEC. Unless you pay for GSuite and/or your mail provider allows this custom domain functionality.

>>Astral+Bc
SPF is trivial to set up for people who already have their own domain; it's literally 1 DNS TXT record.

I'm not aware of any mail providers that require DNSSEC. Were you thinking of DKIM? That's just 1 more TXT record (to publish the public key used to verify the signature), and some mail signing software if your mail server doesn't have that feature built-in (which is freely available).