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Ask HN: Would you rather do a year in prison or be permabanned by tech giants?

3 points by inglor_cz ↗ HN
Let us have a hypothetical scenario where you can choose between a judicial punishment of one year in prison, or being let go, but all the digital giants (let us say FAAG + Visa + Mastercard + Cloudflare) impose a permaban on you. What would be more disruptive to your life?

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onion2k
At least I'd still have Netflix.
inglor_cz
Maybe not if you were banned by the credit card companies.
mtmail
I have family. At the end of the day (and start of the day) everything I do online doesn't matter if I can't spend time with my family. Also I don't plan to overthrow a government so both options are pretty remote in my life.
inglor_cz
https://www.amazon.com/Three-Felonies-Day-Target-Innocent/dp...

I am biased by the fact that I grew up in late Communist Czechoslovakia, but the American self-assuredness that "they only come for the bad guys" strikes me as very short-sighted. Precisely the USA with its long history of systemic discrimination against various outgroups should be wary of this kind of complacency.