<story><title>Apple is threatening to terminate my developer account with no clear reason</title><url>https://www.andyibanez.com/posts/please-help-apple-threatening-terminate-apple-developer-account/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>BiteCode_dev</author><text>And Apple is not even an isolated case.&lt;p&gt;Google will close gmail accounts, take away adsense revenues, or remove youtube videos on a whim.&lt;p&gt;Visa blocked users from giving their money to political causes they decided didn&amp;#x27;t aligned with their view of the world.&lt;p&gt;For years Microsoft made it super hard to buy hardware without paying the Windows licence. They killed xbox remotely. They have invasive telemetry in Win 10.&lt;p&gt;Paypal may refuse to pay the money you have on their account at any moment. Your money, no appeal.&lt;p&gt;Twitter and facebook censorship rules are on a case by case basis. If your famous, you may be able to use hate speech. I you are an anonymous political activist, China may ask for your shut down.&lt;p&gt;Big companies exist to make money. If they get too much power, they will abuse it. Not because they are evil, but because it&amp;#x27;s the logical thing to do for them.&lt;p&gt;This is why I was advocating in another comment that we should not use WhatsApp new payment system:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=23553455&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=23553455&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Thinking about the power we give to big entities is a central mechanism to build the society we live on. That&amp;#x27;s why we should think about what we buy, the media we consumme, etc.&lt;p&gt;They are votes, just as much as during an election.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jcfields</author><text>Amazon suspended my parents&amp;#x27; seller account last August or September with no explanation. All listings removed, couldn&amp;#x27;t log in, no direct customer service number that connects you with someone who knows what&amp;#x27;s going on, and kept taking the monthly fee anyway. Finally, they closed it entirely (again without explanation) a month or two ago. They&amp;#x27;re still holding their inventory in their distribution centers, probably a few thousand dollars worth. I&amp;#x27;m sure they&amp;#x27;ll charge storage and shipping fees to send it back, so it&amp;#x27;s almost certainly not worth bothering about given how thin their margins were in the first place. Yeah, it&amp;#x27;s not a great direction we&amp;#x27;re going in here. These companies just don&amp;#x27;t have enough incentive to care.</text></comment>
<story><title>Apple is threatening to terminate my developer account with no clear reason</title><url>https://www.andyibanez.com/posts/please-help-apple-threatening-terminate-apple-developer-account/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>BiteCode_dev</author><text>And Apple is not even an isolated case.&lt;p&gt;Google will close gmail accounts, take away adsense revenues, or remove youtube videos on a whim.&lt;p&gt;Visa blocked users from giving their money to political causes they decided didn&amp;#x27;t aligned with their view of the world.&lt;p&gt;For years Microsoft made it super hard to buy hardware without paying the Windows licence. They killed xbox remotely. They have invasive telemetry in Win 10.&lt;p&gt;Paypal may refuse to pay the money you have on their account at any moment. Your money, no appeal.&lt;p&gt;Twitter and facebook censorship rules are on a case by case basis. If your famous, you may be able to use hate speech. I you are an anonymous political activist, China may ask for your shut down.&lt;p&gt;Big companies exist to make money. If they get too much power, they will abuse it. Not because they are evil, but because it&amp;#x27;s the logical thing to do for them.&lt;p&gt;This is why I was advocating in another comment that we should not use WhatsApp new payment system:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=23553455&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=23553455&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Thinking about the power we give to big entities is a central mechanism to build the society we live on. That&amp;#x27;s why we should think about what we buy, the media we consumme, etc.&lt;p&gt;They are votes, just as much as during an election.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ksec</author><text>&amp;gt;Visa blocked users from giving their money to political causes they decided didn&amp;#x27;t aligned with their view of the world.&lt;p&gt;That is why I am absolutely against abolishing paper cash.&lt;p&gt;Edit: I know there are countries where you have a democratically elected representatives and every part of the government and even companies is held ( more or less ) accountable to the people and does not need to worry ( much ) about big business or government taking over some basic right. Yes cashless in that case is great. Is like utopian.&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately not everyone has that luxury.</text></comment>