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Post by ImPostingOnHN » Mon, May 03, 2021, 6:29 AM UTC

Tepix wrote: post #385

ImPostingOnHN wrote: post #278

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The issue is that it's better for society that a thousand guilty people go unpunished than that a single innocent one is. "The end justifies the means" is how atrocities are justified.

What i was getting at was that some of these reports may be from people or organisations whose account closures were not in error. I do think they should give people the opportunity to download the data from the account even after it was locked.

Post by AgentME » Mon, May 03, 2021, 11:43 AM UTC

AgentME wrote: post #160

CGamesPlay wrote: post #7

I'd extend this even further: never use a single account for more than one purpose. Create a separate account at the same company for the other purpose. Some examples: - Every product/project you manage should be on a separate account on Google, Facebook, Amazon, etc. - Nothing tied to your consumer accounts should be used for anything business related. - Your Amazon shopping account and your AWS account should defin…

> - Your Amazon shopping account and your AWS account should definitely not be the same account. My Amazon account has been locked for a few days now because I tried to buy a friend a gift card, and I can't even access my AWS account at all. Thankfully all I have on there currently is some old backups in S3, but I previously used AWS for some projects and this could've been a fucking disaster. I tried to buy an Amazo…

Post by Tepix » Fri, May 07, 2021, 10:04 AM UTC

ImPostingOnHN wrote: post #401

Tepix wrote: post #385

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What i was getting at was that some of these reports may be from people or organisations whose account closures were not in error. I do think they should give people the opportunity to download the data from the account even after it was locked.

What I was getting at was that some of these reports may be from people or organisations whose account closures WERE in error, and that is much worse than the possibility that they were not. Any sufficient system of meting out justice requires a sufficient level of assurance that it won't get it wrong and punish an innocent person. Perfection is obviously not possible here, but increasing that level of assurance is.