Re:Reddit permanently bans account of user advocating Lemmy ...
by mindslight on Wednesday June 07, 2023 @12:21PM
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In the long term, a landlord can always take back possession from a tenant, sure. But in the short term, there are many ways tenants can retain possession of their home in spite of landlord wishes, backed up by valid public policy interests in having the financial details of people's homes not result in the elimination of people's rights.
You're talking about what is currently, I'm talking about the philosophical foundations of what could be. Analogous reasoning could be applied to SaaS (Software Augmented with Arbitrary Surveillance). Even if we were to consider individual private property sacrosanct, this doesn't need to extend to corporate property employed providing public-facing services.
Social media companies don’t lose their right to exclude by having allowed you to sign up and use their services. They can still exclude you (read: ban you) pretty much at-will subject to their terms of service (so pretty much always at-will) and it’s not disingenuous to point out that yes, this is in fact their right as the owners and operators of the service.
Other service providers the facts may be different. If you have a contract with a service provider, you have a lot more in your favor under a negotiated agreement than the people that clicked “I Agree” the last time a social media company changed their TOS.