[vdaniuk]

I am a current DigitalOcean client and I was recommending DO to my friends and professional contacts.

New policy of requiring scanned documents is unacceptable in the environment of pervasive nation-state level monitoring and destruction of privacy. If this is a permanent change, I won't recommend DO any longer.

The solution is extremely simple: accept bitcoins for payments and/or fair use verification for free tiers. Also there is a market for forged document scans, just read krebsonsecurity.

[mtmail]

Same here. DigitalOcean can't verify if a document is real (vs photoshopped) so the requirement might as well be sending a letter head. I'm glad I got access to all levels of VMs early by asking nice (for legitimate adhoc large data processing that required lots of RAM).