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Yeah. The title is a click bait. It looks like that most people didn't read past the title.

Anyway Google could actually lock her out if it wants to. That's why using cloud storage is a bad idea. If you're using it, at least make sure that you've got a local copy so that things like this won't happen.

Both happened, according to the article

Where does the article say she can no longer view her own file?

Disclosure: I work at Google, but not on anything related to this.

You’re right, I misread the following lines

"Publisher given unsolicited sexually explicit manuscript, declines to publish it".

Google is a publisher?

So I can sue them if, for example, I read about how to do something dangerous and hurt myself? Or libel?

Interesting.

Google does a lot of things in a lot of different contexts. It's not always acting as a publisher but here I think it is, and it has claimed to be one in the past.

In 2012, Eugene Volokh argued on behalf of Google that it was indeed a publisher:

https://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/21/business/media/eugene-vol...