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That doesn’t explain how the user is held “hostage” by Apple
by dymk 23d ago
That doesn’t explain how the user is held “hostage” by Apple
- HeavenFox 23d agoHostage may be a bad analogy. More like a game of chicken. Imagine you are a regular @icloud.com email user. Apple is basically saying "I dare you to block all @icloud.com email and lose all these customers"
- bobthepanda 23d agoyou could say the same thing about AWS or Cloudflare hosting anybody and everybody. Spain actually started blocking a bunch of their IP blocks during football matches due to a poorly thought out legal decision.
- inigyou 22d agoSo the website is being "held hostage", not the user.
- hollow-moe 22d agoThe user is held hostage as much as the platforms because it's used as "currency" to force other sites to do things they may not want to, i.e. create accounts using private emails, and the platforms are held hostage by these same users expecting to be able to create accounts using their legit or private icloud emails. It looks like some kind of "who will break first", is there a service big enough to be able to block all icloud emails and it'd be a sufficient inconvenience to force apple to rethink how private email works ?