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>and sooner or later people will try to host arbitrary files on it.

I'm pretty sure that's a key reason that google accounts are limited to 15gb now until you pay for more storage. When it was unlimited there were all these opensource projects coming up with ideas to backup your filesystem to gmail and such which got even worse when Drive came about. These free services need to foresee that that will be an issue and put in some basic limits.

There's already "parasitic computation" so we could probably go for "parasitic data storage"

Johnson's Law: The more attention something receives, the bigger it's area of impact becomes.

I thought that was the Streisand effect?

The Streisand is "the more you try to hide something, the bigger its area of impact becomes".

Streisand may also be "the more you try to hide something, the more attention it receives", and then by Johnson's Law, the bigger its area of impact becomes.

Is this comment intended to have a bawdy subtext or am I just reading to much into it?

I think you're reading into it just the right amount.

Inner Platform effect

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inner-platform_effect