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In a lot of ways this kind of stuff is what we were warned about by many including the FSF. Cloud software you don't control, or which knows a lot about you, can be used to censor you.

Always better to self-host and backup/distribute via the cloud as a secondary method. Easier said than done though.

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Yeah, lots of people saw this coming light-years away.

People really should stop ignoring the TOS.

Society really should stop tolerating this type of TOS.

Society prefers cheap and available solutions. It so happens that this one comes with draconian ToS everyone ignores. (And via bandwagon so does all the credible competition.)

The only way to deal with this is right regulation to make such terms illegal or forcibly breaking up such monopolies.

Or running a cheap or free equivalent service by a big carrier, but government whatever is being ignored as a solution and nobody else has the clout to challenge Alphabet.

Self hosting will always be the more reliable solution in cases like this

Even then they just take your domain name away from you. You are always reliant on big corporations for your Internet connection, be it hosting provider, domain name registrar, search engine, or Internet service provider

Namecoin, Tor / I2P, CJDNS, whatever. It's still possible to be reached as long as you have internet connectivity.

If I read every ToS I had to agree to, I'd have no free time. Much better to just click agree and hope contracts for my soul are legally unenforceable.

> Easier said than done though.

Not by much, once you understand the consequences.

I don't see how the consequences make it any easier to do or harder to say - hosting your own content is not only incredibly difficult to do in a secure manner, it's damn expensive. Economies of scale will always make it easier for there to be a few large content hosts as opposed to smaller, federated hosting done on the individual level (well, until better P2P methods are adopted but even then, we're talking massive amounts of storage space)

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