Ask HN: Are email providers required to give email access if locked out?

阿新 • • 發佈：2018-12-28

Nope. Actually they're not even legally required to abide by their own TOS. It's a completely one sided agreement, where they both dictate and interpret the terms. They only time you might have a legal challenge is if you pay for service as there is contract or an implied contract. Those usually force you in to binding arbitration.

Decades of consumer protections are being cast asside.

I'm not sure there's much you can do. Having consumer protection laws catch up with the modern times would be nice, but it's doubtful that they'll be anything more than token gestures to quiet people down.

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