Comment by jauntywundrkind
5 days ago
We can debate on the policy.
The punishment, of being kicked out of your Google account for a zero-tolerance first offense, is completely unreasonable, is incredibly extreme Lawful Evil alignment.
The damage to individuals that Google is willing to just hand out here, to customers they have had for decades, who have their lives built around Google products, is absurd. This is criminally bad behavior and whatever the terms of service say, this is an affront to the dignity of man. This is evil. And beyond any conceivable reason.
Edit: perhaps not the entire account is locked? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47116330
> this is an affront to the dignity of man
This right here is an insane take to the opposite direction. Abuse, violence, torture, war, oppression, these are affronts to the dignity of man. Being kicked off a service from one business is absolutely not. It’s an inconvenience, but does not determine whether you will have bodily integrity.
By this logic, eviction from an apartment is a torture regardless of what the tenant did.
Given how many accounts folks sign up for with their Google account, it very well could mean losing access to bear every single account you have online. That could be an enormously difficult travail.
Yes I think there's many situations where being kicked out of your apartment would be an affront. If this made up crime of jaywalking got folks kicked out? Yes that would be an affront.
I'm willing to taper my outrage down some. Are you willing to come up some?