Comment by toast0
> If Microsoft terminates your account, your programming career is over.
Why wouldn't you just get another account?
> If Microsoft terminates your account, your programming career is over.
Why wouldn't you just get another account?
This isn’t just a US thing. Many countries require KYC for a lot of online accounts
All major platforms have mechanisms to identify ban evasion. It's not so easy to create another account when, for example, they ask for a phone number.
In the U.S. at least, it is trivial to buy a new SIM anonymously. But really, you should refuse to use any platform that requires a phone number in the first place. These companies make it implicitly very clear that they want to control you and extract every bit of information that they can from you.
Age verification laws in the US are chipping away at Internet anonymity. You might not be able to get another account because your legal identity might be required (and can be banned).