It appears my Google account is slated for deletion • Hacker News Board

Re: It appears my Google account is slated for deletion

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Post by Danihan » Wed, Sep 13, 2017, 2:27 PM UTC

jedberg wrote: post #88

Google's remediation systems are terrible. If you can't convince their algorithm you're a good person, you're out of luck. My adwords account has been locked for 15 years despite my repeated appeals (they seem to let me appeal about once every five years). I have no idea why it's locked and no one will tell me nor fix it. So I have a separate adwords account which annoyingly I cannot tie to my primary gmail account b…

And you're someone with some SV credibility and savviness, imaging what it's like for a typical scrub.

Re: It appears my Google account is slated for deletion

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Post by sumeno » Wed, Sep 13, 2017, 2:28 PM UTC

KGIII wrote: post #96

wallace_f wrote: post #83

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It wasn't too long ago that we had the McCarthy era, where speech professing communism was effectively targeted by what were basically thought police. Just as then you don't have to advocate free speech because you are a communist, now you don't have to advocate it because you are a Nazi. You advocate it to protect against authoritarianism.

That's why I do it. I hold what is now considered an extreme view on free speech. I don't even have anything politically incorrect to say, really. I just strongly believe in the freedom to express ideas. A survey of young people really disturbs me. Some 40% don't believe we should have the right to free speech. I'll be damned if I know how to fix this. I see the same sentiments expressed by some people here. Credible…

> A survey of young people really disturbs me. Some 40% don't believe we should have the right to free speech.

Do you have a link to this?

Re: It appears my Google account is slated for deletion

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Post by Natanael_L » Wed, Sep 13, 2017, 2:36 PM UTC

drama-queen wrote: post #31

tpeo wrote: post #18

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Yeah, lots of people saw this coming light-years away. People really should stop ignoring the TOS.

Society really should stop tolerating this type of TOS.

Self hosting will always be the more reliable solution in cases like this

Re: It appears my Google account is slated for deletion

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Post by 0x445442 » Wed, Sep 13, 2017, 2:38 PM UTC

vid.me

Re: It appears my Google account is slated for deletion

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Post by debacle » Wed, Sep 13, 2017, 2:50 PM UTC

It would be highly advantageous for society if someone of knowledge of the utilification of telephone lines, railways, electricity, etc, could make an easily digestible timeline for that taking place.

Re: It appears my Google account is slated for deletion

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Post by lightedman » Wed, Sep 13, 2017, 2:51 PM UTC

There should be a law that once a company gets so big, it is automatically regulated as a public utility.

That would put an end to most of our current problems with massive institutions like this.

Re: It appears my Google account is slated for deletion

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Post by serhei » Wed, Sep 13, 2017, 3:00 PM UTC

pokemongoaway wrote: post #226

sbov wrote: post #16

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How tightly bound we are to just a few large tech companies is... unfortunate. I would love it if it were easier for the common person to host their own stuff. Between all the concerns involved (security, hardware, demand, etc.) I'm not sure how feasible it is. I've given it a lot of thought, and have slowly unwound my custom tech setups - from domains, to emails, to hardware. Mostly for the "bus" factor. When my dad…

Yes, I've posted about this a few times - but it is too big of a project and not novel enough to get many skilled engineers interested, I think: We need a Zoho-like replacement for Google Apps that is open source, and has a host-agnostic ecosystem around it. Someone should be able to launch the apps in their own docker containers, with a button click on AWS, and evolve features like protonail et al. Not all of Google…

Have a look at https://sandstorm.io/

Re: It appears my Google account is slated for deletion

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Post by eggs_and_avo » Wed, Sep 13, 2017, 3:18 PM UTC

People warned us. They told us so. Instead of building decentralized tools that protected and empowered user data we've spent the last 20 15 years uploading our entire lives to Google and Facebook.

Re: It appears my Google account is slated for deletion

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Post by stefantalpalaru » Wed, Sep 13, 2017, 3:25 PM UTC

> I would greatly appreciate it, if anyone could help me get in contact with the Wizard of Google, to help me make my case

Sorry, you need to be very famous in order to be unscroogled through the PR department's damage control.

Re: It appears my Google account is slated for deletion

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Post by danek » Wed, Sep 13, 2017, 3:31 PM UTC

Karunamon wrote: post #230

AstralStorm wrote: post #149

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Your comment has been deemed as recommending fascism by an automated algorithm. /s (which is so complex even Google doesn't know how it works) There isn't anything in this world that is not political. Everything is to a varying degree.

Technical documentation. Recipes. How-to pages. Some games. Some books. Not everything is, should be, or needs to be political.

Anything involving people is political. I'm not sure it can be avoided. And even if it's somehow not political today it's not future-proof. For example, a recipe could call for an ingredient that's considered unethical.