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It depends. In the EU, a bank account is deemed a right, as an essential utility.
If a bank bans a customer on a technicality, it could be construed as breaking this obligation.
Whether or not something like that could apply to something like an email address, however, is another question.
https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32...
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It depends. In the EU, a bank account is deemed a right, as an essential utility.
If a bank bans a customer on a technicality, it could be construed as breaking this obligation.
Whether or not something like that could apply to something like an email address, however, is another question.
https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32...