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Comment by asien

5 years ago

As of today there are no legal protection framework for digital services.

Banking is heavily regulated , you are protected by hundreds if not thousands of laws.

For digital services ? Twitter and Google can legitimately suspend ALL your accounts because you liked a Trump video on YouTube or Tweeted something « Hateful » to Biden.

You can try to go court. You will loose 100% of the time. They are private businesses operating within their own terms, there is not « false » flag or wrong « ban »

They’re private businesses offering a free service, they can cease to offer that at any moment that they want.

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Isinlor  5 years ago

In this case they do not provide a service to the OP. There is no agreement between OP and Google.

This is happening on browsers of their customers. And I'm quite sure that if Google hits a company that competes with Google services there must be a law that they will be breaking.

There was a big case in Poland where Google blocked a SaaS web shop provider using the same exact mechanism [0]. Polish courts decided that Google claims displayed on block page were untrue. Unfortunately, the suing company did not receive compensation, because Google Poland does not operate Chrome browser. The court indicated that the right party to sue is Google incorporated in USA...

[0] https://www.silesiasem.pl/iai-przegralo-proces-sadowy-z-goog...

  • asien  5 years ago

    Aside from abusive dominent position there is no law they would break.

    When you download and use chrome you ACCEPT the Terms and Conditions of Google.

    There is no law that prevents a web browser from blocking access to a website or modifying the page . If the TOS stipulate « pages may differ from the original or be subject to third party software » , they are in within their rights and the customer accepted it when he started using the product.

    Don’t get me wrong. I’m on OP sides and everything , but we have let big tech become too big by giving us free stuff for decades.

    Now they they decide what’s good for us or not with side effects that often damage small business.

    But I insist that in 99% , they operate within the law.