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> What makes the accounts fraudulent?

Fake identity? And general deception about the use

Terms of use is local US fiction of wishful thinking. Nobody cares. You make something available, it's up to the consumer to decide how are they gonna use it. You don't want people to use your stuff how they please? Get off the market.

Obviously wrong on all counts: the company cares. Just like isn't not up to the consumer since the provider can restrict said consumer's access, report those actions to the authorities etc. Lastly, don't like it? Get off the provider?

The company is completely free to void the contract and stop selling their services to anyone they don’t want to?

How is that relevant to anything I've said?

Since what you said applies to the company as well. If they don’t like customers breaking their possibly (or certainly at least in some jurisdictions) largely legally unenforceable ToC conditions they are entirely free to stop doing business with them.

Morally equating both sides seems distasteful since the relationship is mostly dominated by the companies. In a free competitive market it would be different but since were are talking about oligopolies/monopolies it obvious doesn’t work that way since there is only an illusion of choice.

They ignore the TOS on my website that says no training freely with their scraper so …

You forgot to connect your petty grievance to the point of the conversation re. the state of accounts

Why is the grievance petty?

Nobody cares about the feelings of the trillion dollar corporation.

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