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There's still a non-zero risk of Google arbitrarily locking the account, leaving you without access to your documents, spreadsheets and presentations in Google
by jaden 7y ago
There's still a non-zero risk of Google arbitrarily locking the account, leaving you without access to your documents, spreadsheets and presentations in Google Docs.
- tptacek 7y agoWhen that happens to a major party political campaign, I'm sure people will update the advice they're giving major party political campaigns.
- cvwright 7y agoCold comfort for the affected campaign(s) though...
- maxerickson 7y agoTo make this an interesting comment you have to address the trade off between using PCs and Office software and whatever Larry sets up to store and share files and Google's stuff, and then make a convincing argument that Larry is better than Google.
- cvwright 7y agoFor progressive or moderate candidates, sure. However, given events like this: https://thehill.com/policy/technology/406437-google-execs-lament-trump-win-in-leaked-video https://thehill.com/policy/technology/406437-google-execs-la... Any conservative Republicans running in 2020 would have to be morons to trust their entire communications infrastructure to a company who openly opposes their policies. (Cue jokes about how the 2nd half of that last sentence is redundant...)
- maxerickson 7y agoI disagree, you still have to make a convincing argument that Google is more likely to risk ruining a whole bunch of their business than Larry is likely to screw up.
- shereadsthenews 7y agoMany people use Gsuite logins to authenticate to Dropbox, so if Google locks out those accounts they lose Dropbox too.