Your storage service isn't used for your primary identity/access management to your house, bank account, or utilities, and this is where your argument breaks down.
Much like internet should be a regulated utility (in the US at least) due to how integrated with modern day society it is, the right to an unalterable email address should also be considered, especially due to the fact that it is used for identity management across numerous services.
The vast majority of users out in the world use these free services because they don't know anything else, and nor would I expect them to. As pioneers we the technical community herded them at these push button solutions decades ago, and now it's up to us to realize we've somehow failed them at this point by locking them into monopolistic companies that don't have their best interests at heart.
1. We educate them and start promoting services which won't pull the carpet out from under them on a whim
2. We start advocating for regulation on the existing services and force them to comply
> Your storage service isn't used for your primary identity/access management to your house, bank account, or utilities, and this is where your argument breaks down.
If anything that strengthens my argument.
> The vast majority of users out in the world use these free services because they don't know anything else, and nor would I expect them to. As pioneers we the technical community herded them at these push button solutions decades ago, and now it's up to us to realize we've somehow failed them at this point by locking them into monopolistic companies that don't have their best interests at heart.
To me this just sounds like the worst sort of techno-elitism. You're describing a world of Morlocks and Eloi and campaigning for veganism.
> 1. We educate them and start promoting services which won't pull the carpet out from under them on a whim
Yes. I agree.
> 2. We start advocating for regulation on the existing services and force them to comply.
No. I disagree. I have come to believe that it's just simple hubris to think that we (the technical community) have any clue what's going on in re: normals using computers. Did you predict Twitter? I sure didn't.
I predicted a lot, like coin vending machines for raccoons, and mesh networking. But no one cares about those things. Half the world thinks Facebook IS the Internet.
Google-- FAANG and the other corps, are already AIs that merely farm human beings. The sick (IMO) thing is that most people are hunky-dorey with it. Amazon is one of the most trusted entities according to polls.
Sovereignty is jealous: either these mechanical gods with humans for cells will become the new de facto governments of the world, or we nationalize them, which I don't even know what that would mean...
Er, um, I got a little ranty there at the end, eh? Sorry. What I'm saying is, if they are private corporations then grabbing their services by legal theft is bad pool. If you really want to wrest control, go whole hog and nationalize the suckers.
I guess I'm basically saying that those folks bear at least some responsibility for their own ignorance. It's not like people haven't been trying to reach them and help them, eh?
> Anyways, I think in a way we are saying the same thing. Keep fighting the good fight.
Your storage service isn't used for your primary identity/access management to your house, bank account, or utilities, and this is where your argument breaks down.
Much like internet should be a regulated utility (in the US at least) due to how integrated with modern day society it is, the right to an unalterable email address should also be considered, especially due to the fact that it is used for identity management across numerous services.
The vast majority of users out in the world use these free services because they don't know anything else, and nor would I expect them to. As pioneers we the technical community herded them at these push button solutions decades ago, and now it's up to us to realize we've somehow failed them at this point by locking them into monopolistic companies that don't have their best interests at heart.
1. We educate them and start promoting services which won't pull the carpet out from under them on a whim
2. We start advocating for regulation on the existing services and force them to comply