Think the cloud is a safe place to keep yer stuff?

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Have to wonder how many small accounts just vanish with no publicity.Little people like me and some of you.And with no recourse of action to have it made good.

[Grouchy Old Fart]

Too many, I guess.

I have one that I made in 2012, and it's still active, even though I don't really do anything with it (I set it up for a reason that isn't digital privateering.)

But yeah, any cloud host can wipe you out for any reason. A political-leaning US social media site (called Parler, I think?) was wiped out in less than 48 hours by their host, AWS. Amazon Web Services (yes, AWS) decided that they didn't like the site's political stances, so they claimed that it hosted violent content then shut the whole thing down. Note that AWS still hosts websites that contain far more violent content than what they claimed, but apparently they have no problems there.

Long story short, if you think it's important, don't put it on the Cloud.

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