Comment by Klaster_1
10 hours ago
This should be illegal. Megacorps eat more and more of our life and regular people are increasingly at mercy of these hostile entities. They should be pushed more against. If we can't have proper anti monopoly splits like AT&T, then at least ways to prevent them exerting too much power are long due. If you provide an essential service, responsibility should match that.
There needs to be a law that every cloud-based service which has accounts for more than (say) 1% of population, must have a physical service counter presence in every major town staffed by an employee who must be empowered to resolve all account access issues.
Notice how phone carries manage to have a shop in every little strip mall, you're never more than a few miles from the nearest one. Google takes in far more revenue, can easily afford the same. Or they could even just partner with the phone carriers and have a staffed desk in every tmobile/at&t/verizon shop.
Staffed desks would just tell you they need to open a ticket.
No company will give full account unlock control to field employees.
Even the bank teller behind the glass needs to phone their internal fraud dept to unlock accounts.
> needs to phone their internal fraud dept
Except the bank teller has already authenticated you and internal fraud will pick up the phone...
Yes, there needs to be a government public service counter where you can go with all your BigTech issues and complaints.
This is one of the goals of the digital services act.
The EU isn't as bad as some Americans want to believe.
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Excreting power. What an awesome mental image.
“Exerting” would be more correct I guess but less fun.
Funny because I have dyslexia and read excreting power as exerting power, and then had to read your "Exerting" underneath 4 times to understand the mistake. I guess it's the phonics, dyslexia is so weird tho, ha.
Hey do you have certain fonts that are better? I was working with a dyslexic student last week trying to find fonts that work better for his online classes. All the research pointed towards a handful that didn't seem to really improve processing for the student.
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