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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
So pay for it ? GSuite is $6/month and other mail providers can be found for cheaper.

>>threes+qk
The point is, when you switch your phone operator, you don't have to pay the previous operator, in perpetuity, for the privilege of using your number without your calls being blocked.

>>lou130+Qr
Yeah but most people aren't paying for g-mail. It's like if you were using T-mobile "free" plan where you don't have to pay anything but you get a number that starts with "TMO", and then getting mad when you can't transfer your free number to Verizon because T-mobile refuses to transfer it.

>>umvi+161
> Yeah but most people aren't paying for g-mail

...Or are they, except not in cash? :) Jokes aside, that's a fair observation, but then one should be able to "transfer" their address by paying a one-time fee, rather than getting a GSuite subscription.

>>lou130+Ja2
True, email addresses ideally should be more like phone numbers where they are not tied to a specific corporate-owned domain (i.e. "gmail.com"). We would need some sort of standardized lookup though to support such a system.