[miki123211]

> If Google or any other platform doesn't want you on their platform, nobody can force them to have you.

This is demonstrably false.

Where I live, stores aren't allowed to refuse a sale under most circumstances (barring some specifically-listed exceptions like selling alcohol to minors). Same for schools, we don't have a concept of "expulsion" unless it's court-mandated. There's no reason a similar regulation couldn't be applied to digital platforms.

Whether such a regulation should exist is a different matter entirely. Fighting fraud and scams is difficult enough already, making them harder to fight means we get more of them. Either that, or Google starts demanding rigorous ID verification from everybody who wants a Youtube channel.

[epolanski]

No it's not, in most of the world if a business doesn't want you as a customer they can refuse you, end of story.

That's not only true for B2C, as most codexes have at best laws about public utilities (you can't be denied electricity for no reason), sometimes banks, and sometimes regulated professionals (lawyers, insurers, etc).

This is particularly true for B2B, as Youtube and creators transactions are.

[strictnein]

Any government which will assert it has the right to force you to platform people will absolutely also assert that it has the right to force you to deplatform people.