Comment by fowlerpower | Hacker News Reader

Comment by fowlerpower | Hacker News Reader

Silicone Valley companies wield too much power when it comes to these sorts of things. This is just another example of this, if they don't self regulate there will be laws that regulate them.

Google was banning people's email and their entire digital life because of buying multiple pixel phones. This is an unrelated issue but they took it upon themselves to just use their unlimited power to screw people. It's like your electricity company shutting off your heat because you didn't pay for some stove, if they sold both things.

These companies would so themseves a lot of justice by setting up a this party group that manages hear abuses and is impartial.

"Silicone Valley" is actually in Southern California—land of the implants.

“You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.” Inigo Montoya

Silicon != silicone :D. Silicon is a metalloid commonly used to produce silicon wafers for integrated circuits. (Hence, Silicon Valley :D).

Silicone is a rubbery polymer which contains silicon. :D (Ex, window calking, breast implants, etc.)

> Google was banning people's email and their entire digital life because of buying multiple pixel phones.

I thought they unbanned most of the actual people. a large majority were just bot accounts used to buy up the pixel.

They unbanned them because the story took off and it was bad PR for Google. Had the story never taken off, I'm pretty sure those accounts would still be banned.

It's stuff like this that's going to bring more regulation to the Internet. The game industry purposefully created an independent group to regulate their businesses to avoid government regulation that was imminent. I agree that Internet companies need to do the same. No one wants regulation, but it's going to happen one way or the other. Either we do it ourselves on our own terms (like the ESRB) or the government does it on their terms (like HIPAA).

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