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> they can't block necessary services at a whim why not?
Because they don't _control half the internet_. They only have one service you use, not 50. Your phone (voice), cloud storage (drive), website hosting (sites), chat (not even gonna try), music streaming (YouTube music), video hosting, etc aren't all dependent on the same single point of failure like they are with Google. All your mail provider can do is stop processing your email for you (at which point you switch pr…
Thanks for explaining, I was curious too. I only use Google for email hosting out of your list. I can understand how people are deep in that ecosystem though.