You agreed to it: "We may review content to determine whether it is illegal or violates our Program Policies, and we may remove or refuse to display content that we reasonably believe violates our policies or the law." https://www.google.com/drive/terms-of-service/?hl=en

Their list of policy violations is quite long: https://support.google.com/docs/answer/148505#zippy=

You could argue that you could have not used the product in the first place, but for me (not the person you're replying to), the TOS was very different in 2006. I cannot simply just move to a different service. There was no true choice.

Further, if it is a corporate account, the user needs to make a living thus must choose to use the product or tell their employer they need to quit. There is no true choice.

Or more recently, the Black Mirror episode Joan is Awful

> You agreed to it:

I highly doubt that: "clicking agree" and "agreeing" are two entirely separate things.

Literally no one has the time or ability to read, let alone agree, with the things they're forced to click through* in order to live in the modern world.

Therefore, Google gave themselves the right as the GP claimed.

* either literally by clicking through, or by opening up a box an using a product, or by having something like that silently and unilaterally amended, etc.

It’s amusing to start a new console game and have to agree to a 30 page wall of text. Wait, let me have my lawyer review this before I sit down to play single-player CoD (choose your own game from a mega-studio).

Don't they have legal liability here? There is stuff that they can actually get into actual legal trouble for facilitating the sharing and hosting of.

230.c.1: No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider.

As long as they are “dumb pipes” they have no liability. When companies started to “moderate” content that was unaligned with a particular political persuasion, the other side claimed they were no longer dumb, but now editors.

AFAICT, any content filtering that is done is to avoid civil suits and provide the appearance of being helpful to society (or at least not fostering the criminal underworld).

I couldn't find a way to contest or ask about the issue so I reached out to a contact at google who sent me a link where I found out that the issue wasn't made in error and will not be rescinded. My work account and all google services blocked forever! Un/Fortunately it was a Friday before a week off of vacation for me and my access was restored a week later right before I returned to work. I know it's a very much first world problem but that week of vacation was the most anxious I've ever felt in my life. My contact told me that it was likely set off by their automatic "human trafficking" detection.

Every few months since then I'll wake up and get one of the same messages and I'll freak out for a little before it fixes itself an hour or so later. I don't like having my account tagged in this way.

Sounds like you should do likewise.