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While hosting her email on Google apps. https://securitytrails.com/domain/Elizabethwarren.com/dns

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Is this supposed to be an indictment of her character or something? Perhaps you're suggesting she's a hypocrite?

In any case, care to elaborate?

It is generally good form that politicians put their money where their mouth is.

Using GMail while advocating breaking up some anti-competitive/monopolistic practices/companies isn't hypocrisy.

It's using a singular product to do what that singular product doe; which is fine. I can advocate Johnson and Johnson be fined for anti-competitive practices and still buy a stupid band-aid without abandoning my morals. Why would an email provider be any different?

What's your point?

If she breaks up Google Search and Gmail, and Google decides to shut down gmail, she'll not have an email service and lose all her email.

Yeah, because Google would totally shut it down overnight without any warning

Before she can fulfill ant campaign promises like that, her campaign email will have fulfilled its purpose, anyway. So even if that were a likely outcome, I don't see why it would be a concern.

You guys know you can download your entire Gmail archive and move it to a different service?

Perhaps someone trying to radically change the way company X does business, in ways the leaders of said business aren't going to like... shouldn't store (or even transmit) their private correspondence about it using the services of the company.

I mean, that would _normally_ be common sense. Seems weird to even have to point this out.

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