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Yes, I would feel the same if the deleted document was a plan for a nuclear weapon.

If it is not shared with anyone, why should a cloud provider get to decide what I can and can't store?

I want to be able to use that storage as an extension of my local hard drives/SSD's with the ease of use of accessing it between different devices. I still consider it my data.

That those bits and bytes happen to represent a document for a nuclear weapon shouldn't matter.

Now if you were to ask if I believe people should store a video of the Christchurch shooter? No, I full-heartedly believe its kind of sick that someone would want to store/archive that, but I don't want a cloud provider making that decision.




Because it's their ToS, their hard drives, their business. Doing it without at least a day prior notice seems to be a very big no-no, but it obviously did not matter to their bottom line. The general public does not care about these issues enough, because there are other issues in society that seem to be more important for the plurality. (Just to name one crazies shooting people.)


it remains their property on which you store your preciousness


We had that sort of thing in 'real property' too. Today most jurisdictions limit the supervision landlords can decide to implement over tenants (who in fact have a 'property right' in many cases over the property as well as the freeholder, and the right to 'peacefully enjoy' (without intrusion) their home) .

It seems like eventually the law will have to change so that these companies have to start treating users like tenants rather than serfs.




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