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Re: Google suspends romance author's account for writing sexually explicit content

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Post by shagie »

caskstrength wrote: post #196
geraldhh wrote: post #171

Earlier quoted context omitted.

the writing please read the post before asking questions in bad faith

Bad faith? Erotic writing "may be illegal" in the US? o_O

Explicit writing without some sort age verification may be in a gray area. The classic "smutty writing magazines" of old were still on the over 18 shelf in the magazine store.

Some states may further restrict this and go after the distributor or publisher ( https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/3/BillText/er/PDF )

    (e) "Material harmful to minors" means any material that:
    1. The average person applying contemporary community
    standards would find, taken as a whole, appeals to the prurient
    interest;
    2. Depicts or describes, in a patently offensive way,
    sexual conduct as specifically defined in s. 847.001(19); and
    ...
Media type is not defined - text may be interested to fall within that definition.

Google is also a multi-national company and would need to comply with laws in other countries too. If the individuals are represented as being minors (again, changes with jurisdictions) this gets into further complications in many places.

That share links are neither checked for age nor jurisdiction, google would be liable for knowingly distributing sexually explicit material without proper checks in place to limit consumption by minors or in jurisdictions where such content is restricted.

Re: Google suspends romance author's account for writing sexually explicit content

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Post by indrora »

somedude895 wrote: post #134
vsnf wrote: post #49

Something related I’ve been wondering about is the change in language catalyzed by social media companies and their morality / fear of advertisers. You see it especially in TikTok videos. When people aren’t straight up censoring themselves with bleeps, dead audio, or cuts, they use euphemisms instead: kill -> unalive, rape -> grape, sex -> seggs. Even more concerning is that what is considered in need of censoring is…

You see that on Youtube as well. Creators will also censor su*cide, both in audio and video, because Google / advertisers don't like sensitive content and the video will make a lot less money if Google thinks it's about mental illness or suicide.

Google will straight up take down your videos if you mention suicide or death now.

Two creators I follow had to re-upload censored versions of their videos after the youtube audio filter decided that "dead" was too spicy.

Re: Google suspends romance author's account for writing sexually explicit content

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Post by globular-toast »

giantg2 wrote: post #152
mgr86 wrote: post #106

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Do you just push to another remote that you host locally, or are you capturing other github items too? Like, for example, Issues and PR reviews/discussions?

I'm just capturing the code at a specific working version on external media. I'm not concerned about history and discussions since they are all small solo projects with low user bases (I suck).

Wait... You do realise the entire point of git is to store versions? You just git clone and you have everything.

Re: Google suspends romance author's account for writing sexually explicit content

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Post by bosco_mcnasty »

truly the darkest side of these is the opportunity to exploit if someone shares a document with the internet with read/write access, can I upload smut (or anything very naughty or illegal) onto their google doc from some anon connection/account? Can I get them banned thusly? Can I log into their wifi and post threats on whatever renowned toxic boards and again, get a person in trouble?

The problem with the right-think industrial complex is the heavy hand itself can be fooled easily and thus weaponized.

Re: Google suspends romance author's account for writing sexually explicit content

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Post by giantg2 »

globular-toast wrote: post #203
giantg2 wrote: post #152

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm just capturing the code at a specific working version on external media. I'm not concerned about history and discussions since they are all small solo projects with low user bases (I suck).

Wait... You do realise the entire point of git is to store versions? You just git clone and you have everything.

Yeah, I don't want all the history and stuff. I also don't want any sort of upstream connection from it. I just want the code. A snapshot of a working repo with no connections or dependencies to anything.

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Post by freitasm »

paxys wrote: post #6

"I keep all my work on Google/Apple/Dropbox/Office" is really the new version of "I kept all my work on my hard drive and didn't back it up". All of these companies have shown repeatedly that they will cut off your access with no notice for any or no reason and with no recourse. Cloud backups used to be a smart thing to do. Now they are a liability.

It's not cloud backup if it syncs two ways.

My family use a mix of Office 365, Exchange Online and Google Workspace for email, documents, etc. Add to this the required Microsoft Account for Windows logins and OneDrive.

I use a Synology NAS and they have packages to backup all these kinds of accounts, including versioning.

Even if an account is closed their files and emails live in our NAS.

If someone's life depends on anything digital, backup is a minor inconvenience or cost.

Re: Google suspends romance author's account for writing sexually explicit content

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Post by smarx007 »

Hizonner wrote: post #190
sillysaurusx wrote: post #125

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Surely you jest, you joker you. The number of problems with that idea far outweigh the benefits. Should I go into detail? Love your profile text, by the way. EDIT: one quick example is that I’ve lost more data by forgetting passwords than I care to admit. They’ve all been from an age where I thought it was a good idea to encrypt my secret documents, lest prying eyes get to them. Turns out the secrets would’ve been in…

> I’ve lost more data by forgetting passwords than I care to admit This is a you problem. 100 percent PEBKAC. I've been encrypting every backup, local and cloud, and plenty of other things, for probably 30 years. I've done my share of restores, and have never lost the only key to anything I later wanted back. That's true even though I have forgotten a few passwords , because I had failsafes for that situation. This r…

Many cases where a recovery from backup is needed are due to PEBKAC.

Re: Google suspends romance author's account for writing sexually explicit content

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Post by globular-toast »

giantg2 wrote: post #205
globular-toast wrote: post #203

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Wait... You do realise the entire point of git is to store versions? You just git clone and you have everything.

Yeah, I don't want all the history and stuff. I also don't want any sort of upstream connection from it. I just want the code. A snapshot of a working repo with no connections or dependencies to anything.

Yeah, that's literally what a git clone is.

Re: Google suspends romance author's account for writing sexually explicit content

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Post by caskstrength »

shagie wrote: post #201
caskstrength wrote: post #196

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Bad faith? Erotic writing "may be illegal" in the US? o_O

Explicit writing without some sort age verification may be in a gray area. The classic "smutty writing magazines" of old were still on the over 18 shelf in the magazine store. Some states may further restrict this and go after the distributor or publisher ( https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/3/BillText/er/PDF ) (e) "Material harmful to minors" means any material that: 1. The average person applying contempora…

> Google is also a multi-national company and would need to comply with laws in other countries too. If the individuals are represented as being minors (again, changes with jurisdictions) this gets into further complications in many places.

Why is this particular example is being singled out? Calling current conflict in Ukraine "war" or "invasion" is also illegal in one particular jurisdiction. Would Google also ban me for distributing draft of a book about it via Drive? How about a fantasy novel about adventures on Winnie-the-Pooh in China?

> That share links are neither checked for age nor jurisdiction, google would be liable for knowingly distributing sexually explicit material without proper checks in place to limit consumption by minors or in jurisdictions where such content is restricted.

As far as I understood the draft was shared with particular group of people. It is not like author uploaded porn video on youtube and made it public.

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