""Account has been disabled."  I'm sorry, what?!  Yes, indeed, Google has disabled my account for some reason. [...] We've all (yours truly included) heard about the importance of owning your digital data, the downsides of vendor lock-in, and how if you're being provided a free service, you're the product, not the customer.  But I honestly never understood how deep this problem is, and how severe the consequences can be ("surely this cannot happen to me", right?!).  But starting today, I look at this problem from an entirely new angle."
Via Standblog.