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Google Cloud’s kafkaesque bureaucracy: suspended without reason

Ellsworth Toohey
Nov 04, 2025
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Photo of Google’s Sergey Brin JD Lasica from Pleasanton, CA, US, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Imagine running a business that depends on cloud services, only to have your account suspended three times in six months, each time for mysterious “policy violations” that nobody can explain. That’s what happened to Andrew Ayer, founder of SSLMate, whose kaf…

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