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by daneel_w 1081 days ago
I don't want to come off as an apologist for Oracle or the OCI product, but I can't help to wonder if there's more to the story than just "this provider will randomly ban accounts without any reason".

The only real "without any reason" I'm aware of is free tier infra running on an account that hasn't upgraded to paid tenancy. "Always-Free" resources belonging to an unpaid tenancy can be deallocated without notice in order to provide resources for a paid tenancy.
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jeroenhd 1081 days ago
Nitter frontends and Mastodon bridges have repeatedly been struck with DMCA takedowns and cease and desist letters because someone Googled themselves and found a strange website replicate their account.

There are malicious people out there (on large, official platforms as well, because moderation is fiction) that will replicate someone's social feed and then adds controversial crap/crypto scams/weird stuff in the middle of it all. Taking action against imposters is sometimes necessary.

If you're a normal Youtube channel and you find someone "ripping" your videos to Yewtube, I completely understand why someone would demand a takedown. Most people barely know how to operate a browser, let alone understand the concept of privacy preserving alternative frontends that work through local implementations of Youtube's client code.

If you're some underpaid tech support person who gets a DMCA complaint about such a mirror, I wouldn't be surprised if they decide "take down first, ask questions later" would be a safe bet.

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gundmc 1081 days ago
Agreed. I'm no Oracle apologist and I'm sure the author was understandably emotional when drafting this, but opening with "It is known that this provider will randomly ban accounts without any reason" - especially without linking to any references - just undermines the author's credibility and makes them seem immature.
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immibis 1081 days ago
They don't randomly ban accounts for no reason, but they do ban accounts for slight reasons.
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daneel_w 1080 days ago
While a lot of reasons may feel "slight" they are most likely still clearly defined in the terms of service. It would be interesting (and useful to other OCI users) to get more information about what actually happened in this case.
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immibis 1080 days ago
The terms of service say they can ban your account because they feel like it.
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