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The moment I saw nytimes' reporting that a dad lost access to his Google account because of "nude" photos of his baby and couldn't get help, I de-Googled almost completely and am now using fastmail as my main email account. My other inboxes are only kept just in case someone reaches me via those old addresses.

I knew that if I didn't do that, the same thing would some day happen to me.

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Fastmail is headquartered in Australia and Australia has censorship laws. Hope you're "aligned"!

Then you just switch to another provider. The important part is owning your domain name and not relying on someone else’s.

I haven't been affected by any of those censorship laws and I doubt it ever will (in which case I'll just use a different provider). The biggest difference is that if something goes wrong, at least there is a real human being I can talk to at Fastmail.

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