[BurritoAlPastor]

People are also not really expected to be individually responsible for mitigating flood or fire risk; they buy insurance. People can’t buy insurance for getting locked out of their Google account. We’re currently in a “well it’s your own fault for not owning and furnishing a second house in case the first one burns down” situation for digital property.

[nyokodo]

> People can’t buy insurance for getting locked out of their Google account

Maybe they should be able to? I’d purchase that kind of insurance!

[t_mann]

That might actually be interesting, because then there'd be actors who could give Google and the other BigTechs a lot more heat than any individual user can over unjustified account deletions (to avoid having to pay out the insurance premium).

[Retric]

People are expected to mitigate flood risk by not moving to flood prone areas.

[prepend]

You mitigate that risk through other means, like not using Google and instead using a provider with better customer service.

Just like I wouldn’t mitigate 500 year flood plain but would instead never buy or build a house there.