Google Drive may restrict files identified as violating ToS
The join over {IPR theft, AI, censorship and &quot;think of the children&quot;} is a strong reinforcing superset of all of the motivations here.<p>CSAM opened the door to a conversation but we&#x27;re a long way down the road to cloud backed storage being a gatekeeper not just a storage space. In my cloud or on my device, it&#x27;s being looked at.<p>What&#x27;s missing is arbitration via neutral mediator. The contracts are written to favour the provider. Automated reasoning of your breach and the abysmal restitution process is bad, but we&#x27;re also a lot further down that road than people think. The &quot;help by public shaming&quot; here is not a solution at scale.<p>I pay for Google &quot;one&quot; and my hope is that excluding frank breach of the terms, paying them gives me one small extra edge in the &quot;why did that happen and how do we fix it&quot; space. I have found with ad spend, being a customer changes the relationship compared to free service. So.. there&#x27;s hope. Probably misplaced.