My son pleasured himself on Gemini Live. Entire family's Google accounts banned • Hacker News Board

Re: My son pleasured himself on Gemini Live. Entire family's Google accounts banned

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Post by smuhakg » Wed, Apr 01, 2026, 3:34 AM UTC

0xy wrote: post #5

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If a 14 year old engaged in erotic roleplay with a sexual predator over Google Meet, would you be saying the same thing?

Re: My son pleasured himself on Gemini Live. Entire family's Google accounts banned

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Post by apt-apt-apt-apt » Wed, Apr 01, 2026, 3:36 AM UTC

There's a story of an OnlyFans star who slept with Meta employees "in hopes" of getting her IG account unbanned, which worked.

Re: My son pleasured himself on Gemini Live. Entire family's Google accounts banned

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Post by orbital-decay » Wed, Apr 01, 2026, 3:37 AM UTC

elevation wrote: post #27

If I ever become a life coach for small business owners, I don't know how I can recommend GSuite. Horror stories of "I've lost everything I had with them" are so plentiful I've stopped saving them. Seems like even Microsoft is not as bad.

What would Microsoft do in such a case? Unlikely to be any different.

Re: My son pleasured himself on Gemini Live. Entire family's Google accounts banned

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Post by koolba » Wed, Apr 01, 2026, 3:37 AM UTC

This is the exact scenario I described one month ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47195943

Re: My son pleasured himself on Gemini Live. Entire family's Google accounts banned

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Post by [deleted] » Wed, Apr 01, 2026, 3:37 AM UTC

lkbm wrote: post #9

hyperhello wrote: post #7

Where the hell is the open source app that downloads all your google stuff? There is a huge opportunity to be a hero.

Google Takeout[0] seems to have basically everything selected by default, so I don't see a need for another tool. [0] https://takeout.google.com/

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Re: My son pleasured himself on Gemini Live. Entire family's Google accounts banned

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Post by tshaddox » Wed, Apr 01, 2026, 3:38 AM UTC

smuhakg wrote: post #31

0xy wrote: post #5

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If a 14 year old engaged in erotic roleplay with a sexual predator over Google Meet, would you be saying the same thing?

I would say that Google should not ban the victim’s family members’ account in that scenario.

Re: My son pleasured himself on Gemini Live. Entire family's Google accounts banned

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Post by neko_ranger » Wed, Apr 01, 2026, 3:39 AM UTC

yo I'm not an anxious person but this has set it off. If it truly is anyone who had logged into the same device, I wonder if a system reset keeps you clean from any bad accounts going forward. For example if I system reset and sold a tablet on craigs list

Re: My son pleasured himself on Gemini Live. Entire family's Google accounts banned

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Post by elephanlemon » Wed, Apr 01, 2026, 3:39 AM UTC

koolba wrote: post #34

This is the exact scenario I described one month ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47195943

Jeez, really gives you incentive not to use Gemini.

Re: My son pleasured himself on Gemini Live. Entire family's Google accounts banned

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Post by vessenes » Wed, Apr 01, 2026, 3:39 AM UTC

Oooof. This is going to take a lawyer. A team of lawyers. Everything on that account has no doubt been LOCKED down for CSAM-grade review. I'm just imagining how you'd get a judge to help you here. You'd need to have found an acceptable third party that would do the data access, you'd have to agree on an attorney's eyes only list of data that you'd request.. Any chance anyone might possibly access CSAM = no. Any chance someone might possibly try and delete CSAM = absolutely no.

I don't know what the OP does for work, but almost certainly it's going to be easier to just start over with a new website. Maybe get the daughter's laptop taken to a data recovery specialist and try and pull browser history for the thesis.

Re: My son pleasured himself on Gemini Live. Entire family's Google accounts banned

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Post by troad » Wed, Apr 01, 2026, 3:40 AM UTC

God, this is a real nightmare. I'm pretty reticent to rush to regulation, but I really don't know what other solution is even possible here.

The average person cannot realistically exist in a digital vacuum, self-hosting their entire online world. Google should not be able to do this to them. No one should have to rely on trying to whip up public mobs on Reddit or HN to get Google to give them access to their own freaking tax spreadsheets.