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by dathinab 1776 days ago
> but it's within their rights to stop sending you these bytes or kick you off their platform altogether.

Actually no.

If a platform provides a generally available service they are (in many countries, idk. about the US) not allowed to arbitrary exclude some people they don't like without a legal valid reason.

And braking legally not valid/binding terms in a ToS is not a legal valid reason. Just because you write something in your ToS doesn't mean it has any legal relevant meaning, there are limits to what you can put in ToS. And limiting (properly done, privacy respecting) research is often not valid. (Through depends a lot on the country.)

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The FTC is a US government entity.