Comment by quesera
2 years ago
There's no constitutional question, and these services can drop you as a customer for (almost) any reason.
So yes, they can enforce their terms for all practical purposes.
But no, they cannot levy fines or put you in jail.
> But no, they cannot levy fines or put you in jail.
Those are the consequences that matter. I don't care if Microsoft or Google decide they don't want to be friends with me. They'd stab me in the back to steal my personal data anyway.
You do care if you built your business on top of them though.
And that's the whole point of violating terms by competing with them.
I wouldn't want to build a business on something that could be pulled out from underneath me.
I'd start a business but the whole setup is a government scam. Business licenses are just subscriptions with extra steps.