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by Fernicia 483 days ago
Is there an example of this happening? Seems like a stretch.

On the other hand there are examples of people in the UK expressing racist sentiments in DMs and being jailed for it.

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This was the first example that popped to mind: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/aug/22/google-cs...

Not having Google accounts isn't the end of the world, but given the amount that many (most?) of us rely on their services (I think of all the accounts I have tied to my @gmail email and cringe, but still I'm there), this is fairly disasterous.