This is the part that should receive a Congressional inquiry. I would love to see Congress drag Sundar Pichai (and no one else) before them and scream “What the hell is wrong with you?” in his face.
We have courts for a reason. They found no wrongdoing. Google is objectively deciding they know better than an elected court on what happened.
Remember Google can ban any account at any time for any reason including because they just do not like you.
No Google software, devices, or data on their systems belongs to you. Sue them and they will remind you of this fact in detail.
If you want to own your digital life you will have to commit to being a pariah in your social circle that is ridiculed constantly for using open source tools.
> If you want to own your digital life you will have to commit to being a pariah in your social circle that is ridiculed constantly for using open source tools.
I think your friends are just a little too obsessed with social media. The only response I ever hear to "I don't have a facebook/twitter/whatever" is "yeah, that makes sense, I think about deleting mine all the time."
I'd go a little broader than that. I'd also want to see them drag in whoever made the decision to not reinstate the account, plus everyone who knew what happened and could have overridden the decision but chose not to do so.
> everyone who knew what happened and could have overridden the decision
that will never happen, unless documents & emails get discovered and all the cc'ed people get subpoena'ed and deposed. And even that won't catch everybody. Congressional committees don't have time for that.
Big corporations are adept at diffusing real responsibility among a faceless mass of people.
We have courts for a reason. They found no wrongdoing. Google is objectively deciding they know better than an elected court on what happened.
This whole situation is absurd and evil.