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Email admins are not above this, but they have waaaayy less information available in order to ban stuff



How is you private life have way less data then you public life?

Email accounts have waaaaayy more information about you than a public social media account. I can find out your private thoughts, the things you buy, who you owe money too, your social graph, tons and tons of data. I can find out way more about than from some comments on a nerd forum.


If an email admin looks into your private correspondence your first thought is to get the hell out of his servers, whereas if a mastodon admin constantly monitors public posts from your and other instances then it doesn't seem like a big deal




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