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by Zak
55 days ago
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Being banned from life due to a TOS violation is a real concern because it's already hard to do a bunch of things without a Google or Apple account. If Google and Apple can require a government ID to create such an account, it becomes very difficult to evade a ban. Options to get around that problem include regulating Apple and Google or mandating that essential services not require accounts with third-party providers. |
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I would call for both of these things, for independent reasons.
All providers who get relied on in this way should need suitable regulation, even for non-essential things like supermarket loyalty cards.
Apple and Google in particular are now too heavily associated with a government hostile to the EU, therefore the EU should as a matter of urgency ensure that essential services do not require them in particular, and the surest way to do so (and make sure no shenanigans happen with mergers) would be to mandate that essential services do not require accounts with any third-party providers. Not even the postal system or a telephone number, you should always have a viable fallback to some physical office which is open at reasonable hours and is in a reasonably accessible location.