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Individual Corporation to User sanctions are a good idea. For it to be effective, it's need to not only hit the user, but their extended network. Imagine if you worked for these guys, and then oneday you found out, both apple and google and microsoft banned you, your wife and kids and parents from their networks based on your actions. Say the ban lasted 5 years for relations and lifetime for the person.

It'd be an interesting escalation. I think it would work, It's a big part of the digital ecosystem you'd essentially be blacklisting bad actors from. Though there'd be scope creep eventually. So maybe it'd be dead on arrival as a technique to pressure them.




>Though there'd be scope creep eventually.

The described scope is already horrible enough that I don't know how you could possibly acknowledge that it'd get even worse and still advocate for it.


> Imagine if you worked for these guys, and then oneday you found out, both apple and google and microsoft banned you, your wife and kids and parents from their networks based on your actions

I feel sorry for you if you live in a country like that, but fortunately, in the country this company operates there are laws and regulations preventing that you can be punished or discriminated based on what your parents do or done.


> there are laws and regulations preventing that you can be punished or discriminated based on what your parents do or done.

Preventing the state from doing the punishment, yes. But AFAIK there’s no de jure rule on private entities doing this. It may go against the spirit of our systems and societal norms, but it would not be against the letter.

It may, however, spur new legislation to subsequently ban the practice.


> Preventing the state from doing the punishment, yes. But AFAIK there’s no de jure rule on private entities doing this. It may go against the spirit of our systems and societal norms, but it would not be against the letter.

Here we have schools using all this crap from Microsoft or Google for education. I don't see how a company, with our actual laws, can prevent a kid from studying just because his parents did something.




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