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The problem is that there is no serious appeals process, and no third party oversight of moderation decisions. This is true for all the big platforms.
How do we fix that, IDK, but probably at the government level.
It amazes me that HN, and Twitter, is the only customer service for a multi-billion dollars company like Google.
You forgot Tim's email address[1] [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29446529
I don't do anything on my personal Google account, just mail. Also I use a Google account only for one product at a time.
People need to threat google, apple and facebook accounts as expendible.
The problem is that this does not happen often enough to be of any relevance so they simply and literally don't care, even if you are a paying customer. It's a valid reason not to use any Google services anymore, though. That won't harm Google nor will they change anything (the "no relevance" argument) but at least you get to sleep well at nights knowing you'll still have access to your "life" the next morning.
Isn't it just incredibly sad that one of the top 5 companies in our industry has this way of operating? And is it really true that there are not enough engineers and product people reading stories like this and have a bit of that good old "Focus on the user and all else will follow" to make the system more humane?
Sweet summer child :) Google is not serving users, it is selling adtech to businesses.
Could one lose access to manage domains registered with Google domains because of some other service like this?
An example from 2019:
> As he explained, this didn't just kick people out of chat. It affected entire Google accounts -- people lost videos, channel memberships or access to important services they needed, all because they spammed several emotes in one line.[1]
[1] https://www.engadget.com/2019-11-10-youtube-reinstates-banne...
Why are you using legacy centralized web 2.0 platforms ruled by fiat money? Put your video on IPFS, give it an ens.domain, mint an NFT for it. With an eth filecoin bridge it will fund its own censorship-resistance forever. That tech is great and has obsoleted web 2.0. Don't trust Google, self-govern!
Why do you use YouTube? The html tag was invented 10+ years ago and works flawlessly with mp4.
This is why I have like to have many google accounts. One for personal mail, one for my own youtube channel, another for my 2nd channel with random uploads, another for gmail for the first youtube account and another account for gmail for the other youtube account, plus 2 more gmail accounts for spam or when I need to signup with an email for another expendable service, I use one of these. I don't do anything on my p…