I noted this morning a story making the rounds of a person who had all of their Google services suspended without warning. According to the story, it is not even clear what his transgression was or why he was banned from all of his services.
One Statistics Professor Was Just Banned By Google: Here Is His Story
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-08-21...-his-story
According to the story, his blog, email accounts and University web page that is hosted by Google were all shutdown.
What is unusual is the guy is a statistics professor so it is not clear what exactly he could have done to warrant such treatment or how they would target for shutdown his email accounts.
As one can imagine, many people need their email accounts to access services or get notifications from other companies so losing your email account could easily put someone out of business and ruin them, and Google does not even seem to have any reason for having done this.
I did some looking around and it looks like there are projects that put data and access away from the ability of any one person or organization to be able shut someone out of internet access.
Could You Make Your Own Internet?:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnKMkX0qS3Y
Near the end there is disucssion about cjdns and hyperboria that would give one the ability to setup an alternate type of internet network and not have to worry about what Google or any company does since they would not have control over it.
It seems that LBRY would also need to be part of such a solution:
An introduction to LBRY:
https://lbry.io/what
LBRY is the first digital marketplace to be controlled by the market’s participants rather than a corporation or other 3rd-party. It is the most open, fair, and efficient marketplace for digital goods ever created, with an incentive design encouraging it to become the most complete.
One Statistics Professor Was Just Banned By Google: Here Is His Story
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-08-21...-his-story
According to the story, his blog, email accounts and University web page that is hosted by Google were all shutdown.
What is unusual is the guy is a statistics professor so it is not clear what exactly he could have done to warrant such treatment or how they would target for shutdown his email accounts.
As one can imagine, many people need their email accounts to access services or get notifications from other companies so losing your email account could easily put someone out of business and ruin them, and Google does not even seem to have any reason for having done this.
I did some looking around and it looks like there are projects that put data and access away from the ability of any one person or organization to be able shut someone out of internet access.
Could You Make Your Own Internet?:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnKMkX0qS3Y
Near the end there is disucssion about cjdns and hyperboria that would give one the ability to setup an alternate type of internet network and not have to worry about what Google or any company does since they would not have control over it.
It seems that LBRY would also need to be part of such a solution:
An introduction to LBRY:
https://lbry.io/what
LBRY is the first digital marketplace to be controlled by the market’s participants rather than a corporation or other 3rd-party. It is the most open, fair, and efficient marketplace for digital goods ever created, with an incentive design encouraging it to become the most complete.