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Why? You're going to reference them from Google Drive. Google has 400 trillion gazillion servers with copies of it. There's no way you can lose it! You wouldn't

by kulahan 7mo ago

Why? You're going to reference them from Google Drive. Google has 400 trillion gazillion servers with copies of it. There's no way you can lose it! You wouldn't do anything weird, so there's absolutely no reason to think you'd lose your account. And honestly, we're all humans here - surely you can reach out to a company as large as Google and speak to a human if there's an issue this significant. Another consideration: kids do not have the ability to think ahead and consider future consequences. It's one of the last functions of the brain to develop, and it doesn't fully complete until, often, you've already finished college. Looking through the comments in the reddit thread, it appears the daughter had her dissertation on her google drive and lost it despite having done nothing wrong herself. And just the final point I want to drive home: these people lost their google accounts because of what someone else did. Nobody thinks ahead to account for something like that. At what point are we going to start looking at digital mail the same way we do physical mail? It's equally as important today. It needs protections, regulations, and oversight.

apparent 7mo ago
Even if you don't think you're at risk of permanently losing access, you would want to have access during power outages or other internet outages. Or even just when you're on a plane and want to look up an old email.
Hizonner 7mo ago
Yes, they should be regulated. Or more likely outright shut down. Nonetheless, at the moment, it's a real risk, and plenty of people do in fact think ahead and not make themselves dependent on those services. > kids do not have the ability to think ahead and consider future consequences. It's one of the last functions of the brain to develop, and it doesn't fully complete until, often, you've already finished college. Please stop posting kindergarten-level distortions of neuroscience. It burns.
- kulahan 7mo ago
  >Please stop posting kindergarten-level distortions of neuroscience. It burns. Simply denying things doesn't make them untrue. Please don't do this. It burns.

by kulahan 7mo ago

apparent 7mo ago

Even if you don't think you're at risk of permanently losing access, you would want to have access during power outages or other internet outages. Or even just when you're on a plane and want to look up an old email.

Hizonner 7mo ago

Yes, they should be regulated. Or more likely outright shut down. Nonetheless, at the moment, it's a real risk, and plenty of people do in fact think ahead and not make themselves dependent on those services. > kids do not have the ability to think ahead and consider future consequences. It's one of the last functions of the brain to develop, and it doesn't fully complete until, often, you've already finished college. Please stop posting kindergarten-level distortions of neuroscience. It burns.

kulahan 7mo ago
>Please stop posting kindergarten-level distortions of neuroscience. It burns. Simply denying things doesn't make them untrue. Please don't do this. It burns.