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I would guess that someone nefarious got access to the Google account associated with that youtube account... If you can log into an account, it's pretty easy to get an account permabanned. Just paste some links to well known child porn trading sites into the description, and the account gets banned within about half an hour. Someone at my school modified a chrome extension to do that and half the schools youtube acc…
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A person (people?) got really angry about the eggplant emoji a few years ago: https://github.com/nodejs/TSC/issues/8 https://www.reddit.com/r/KotakuInAction/comments/3xtep0/socj...
What?? Can anybody explain to me (non American) why a fruit is offensive? And why people who find a fruit offensive are taken seriously?
Meanwhile monetized animal abuse channels for children keep growing... because they make money: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4PpFUrfT2Pou7OwpVF0MUQ Shameful!
if you eating live seafood is considered abuse, then should all fishing channels should be banned as well?
I love Google's products, and I put up with the fact that they harvest my data. But to have such terrible support for their services is absolutely ludicrous. I've seen too many stories of people losing their content, email addresses, services they rely on, or livelihoods. All because Google is too cheap to provide a reasonable way for customers to talk to a person about their problem. I understand this is expensive a…
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A person (people?) got really angry about the eggplant emoji a few years ago: https://github.com/nodejs/TSC/issues/8 https://www.reddit.com/r/KotakuInAction/comments/3xtep0/socj...
What?? Can anybody explain to me (non American) why a fruit is offensive? And why people who find a fruit offensive are taken seriously?
I don't support any kind of censorship, but if you can understand why a company might censor sexual harassment, threats of violence, or any other kind of message, it's pretty easy to understand that language/emojis/etc can be re-imagined to convey those types of messages.
This appears to be true of Twitter and others as well.
From my vantage point, it appears to be quite arbitrary. And quite concerning in a number of cases, given the centralization of email, docs, etc.
I do make backups of google content every so often.
I guess the irony of making a copy of a cloud set of services data locally, as you may not be able to trust that these services will be there over longer intervals, is either ironic ... or problematic.
It speaks directly to the concept of risk of extended supply chains ... is the risk to your data, and ability to interact with services worth maintaining a presence on the systems?
This behavior on their and related tech giants generally makes me question how much we should rely on them for important things (like permanent email addresses) over time. This has been making me uneasy for a while, and seeing more stories like this is not quelling my discomfort.
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Is eating live seafood animal abuse? I also don't see how this channel is directed towards children. This type of food looks expensive and I don't think kids normally eat this stuff.
I find it hard to imagine how eating living animals wouldn't be considered animal abuse. I mean, how is it distinguishable from crushing them underfoot? Because teeth are OK, but high heels are not?
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Nah. With Google, the attitude of ad-supported extends to B2B. You can pay them a megabuck a year, and still get steamrolled by their AI having a random bug.
Do you have an example of paying customer giving Google >=$1m a year and still get steamrolled by AI without being able to get in touch with a human and correct the issue?
The failure happened in a different part of Google than the one managing the relationship. The people who wanted the partnership to succeed were in Google's cloud hosting business. The failure was in Youtube. It wasn't anything like a bad flag; just a straight-up bug (which caused us to move our videos to S3, and scramble to put together our own video player).
Yes, we could get in contact with a human. No, the problem couldn't be fixed. Yes, Google did ultimately lose >>$1 million/year in revenue in part as a result of this and other failures (to AWS).
I keep hearing stories about similar issues. Suddenly someone is terminated from a Google service for unknown reasons, without any possibility of reversing such decisions. This appears to be true of Twitter and others as well. From my vantage point, it appears to be quite arbitrary. And quite concerning in a number of cases, given the centralization of email, docs, etc. I do make backups of google content every so of…
The cloud is just someone else's computer after all.
I love Google's products, and I put up with the fact that they harvest my data. But to have such terrible support for their services is absolutely ludicrous. I've seen too many stories of people losing their content, email addresses, services they rely on, or livelihoods. All because Google is too cheap to provide a reasonable way for customers to talk to a person about their problem. I understand this is expensive a…
And that scales to at least 300 million users.
Google is apparently less competent then the federal government in that regard (granted Google can't print money, yet).