Upwork banned my account for 'being dishonest'

Re:Upwork banned my account for 'being dishonest' by kuschku on Tuesday February 13, 2018 @10:30AM (#16367827)

> What happens if Amazon, right now, decided that you are not a good customer and deleted every one of your accounts and deleted all your AWS data? As of right now, you can't buy anything from them goods wise. And if you were using AWS as a webservice platform, now, you can't. No recourse. At all.

People actually have sued against that in Germany, and a German court determined that Amazon has to allow you to recover all your data, and all digital products (e.g. Amazon Kindle books) you paid for.

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Re:Upwork banned my account for 'being dishonest' by crankylinuxuser on Tuesday February 13, 2018 @10:44AM (#16367961)

That's fine and good for citizens in Germany, and likely the EU at large.

In the USA, non-negotiable click-through agreements are legal. And we, the citizenry, can give up a good class more of rights then the EU allows. These rights would have protected their citizens, and in your instance have. They do not protect US citizens.

We have small claims, and the hope an instance of the company resides in the state. If not, they can effectively ignore small claims. Nothing to collect from.

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Re:Upwork banned my account for 'being dishonest' by s73v3r_ on Tuesday February 13, 2018 @02:33PM (#16369988)

So yell at your congressional representation. Yell until you're blue in the face. Make others yell with you. And if that doesn't work, run for office yourself.

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