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Originally Posted by Marcusmax
I had a similar experience with Facebook a while ago. My account got hacked and they closed it because of the resulting activity and even though they recognised that it had been hacked and was nothing to do with my activity, they refused to open it again. I had done a lot of work to set up ad campaigns, build up a list of followers etc. to promote my music and I basically had to start from scratch with a new account.
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Yeah, that's just it. Those huge companies have too much power over our lives IMO. I'm not a luddite, I use Amazon, Google, Microsoft etc. etc. But I do try to make my personal backups wherever possible (for example, I back up my Gmail regularly to an external drive). Because if something happens, you'll be like a slave without any rights; you'll just lose your stuff and you cannot do anything to restore it.