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

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So we're just linking to random Reddit posts now?

Thank you. This really bothers me. The literal last phrase in the Hacker News Guidelines is:

> Please don't post comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit. It's a semi-noob illusion, as old as the hills. [1]

Which is cute and all, but handwaves away a real problem. IMO we should always point out and ridicule when a post or comment is too Reddit because it is a real problem.

So I try not to say anything when this happens, but I'm glad when someone still points it out.

I'm not a programmer, not in tech, and not an Anglo... I come here because it's the last place on the internet aside from 4chan that is free from Reddit-like posting (I just ignore all the posts about Rust or whatever).

Please, don't take this away from us.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

PS. This place is also becoming Bluesky, which is its own problem, but I guess that's another topic.

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

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post #40

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 fre…

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

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post #119

Earlier quoted context omitted.

But it's the kind of business, where recourse is not needed

Do you not value relevance in your search results???

Of course I do, my point was I don't need a way to email / call a human being at Google when something is wrong with a search result.

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

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post #116

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The mods of that subreddit appear to have come to the same conclusion. If you go into Reddit believing all of the posts by default and forgiving inconsistencies you’re going to be duped by a lot of fake stories. I think it’s interesting that someone posted a “my account just got busted for accidental CSAM” and nobody is concerned about the impending law enforcement consequences? Only about email access? If this reall…

> If this really happened then it would be referred to law enforcement because companies don’t handle CSAM as internal matters that go through their appeals process There's just an awful lot of armchair theorising in your posts, and a lot of it doesn't sound like it's backed by much actual experience. If I'm being honest, you sound very young to me. Which I do not intend as a slight at all, youth is great, but it doe…

> There's just an awful lot of armchair theorising in your posts,

I was quoting the actual Reddit post. You were theorizing about recovery emails and other things that were contradicts by the Reddit post.

> and a lot of it doesn't sound like it's backed by much actual experience.

I do have experience in dealing with account policies for a product that hosted user data and some of the details that go into referring cases to law enforcement. Again, you are the one theorizing to support your story and getting it wrong.

That said, you don’t need to have experience to know that child endangerment cases get referred to law enforcement. This is common sense

> If I'm being honest, you sound very young to me

If I’m being honest, this sounds like you’re so resistant to backing down that you’re turning toward personal insults based on top of your own incorrect theorizing.

It’s pretty clear that you are determined to believe this story is true even after that subreddit’s mods caught on and others here have realized the problems with the story. If you’re determined to believe it then you don’t need to start inventing theories about me personally.

> there's a big difference between (a) following the clues to reach a conclusion, and (b) reaching a conclusion and then gathering up some factoids to support it. The former is good science, the latter is high school debating. The latter is very easy to spot, and that's why I find your argument unconvincing. It would have been possible to make a much more convincing one.

I followed the clues in the original post and made a logical case based on them.

All of your comments here trying to rebut it have been moving the goalposts each time I point out where you got the facts wrong.

If you’re just trying to attack my construction of the argument for not being convincing enough to you, that seems more like a you problem at this point. I don’t see any reason to continue trying to discuss anything if you’re just going to go with this silly “you sound like a child because I didn’t understand your argument the first time” attempt to rebut.

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

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post #119

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do you not value relevance in your search results???

Of course I do, my point was I don't need a way to email / call a human being at Google when something is wrong with a search result.

Again, why not? Do you not want the results to have less seo garbage? Or not have AI hallucinate in your face blocking useful results?

I don't get it. I mean, I understand that you don't have recourse now, but I don't understand not needing one given how important search is

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

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post #116

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> If this really happened then it would be referred to law enforcement because companies don’t handle CSAM as internal matters that go through their appeals process There's just an awful lot of armchair theorising in your posts, and a lot of it doesn't sound like it's backed by much actual experience. If I'm being honest, you sound very young to me. Which I do not intend as a slight at all, youth is great, but it doe…

> There's just an awful lot of armchair theorising in your posts, I was quoting the actual Reddit post. You were theorizing about recovery emails and other things that were contradicts by the Reddit post. > and a lot of it doesn't sound like it's backed by much actual experience. I do have experience in dealing with account policies for a product that hosted user data and some of the details that go into referring ca…

> you’re turning toward personal insults based on top of your own incorrect theorizing.

I think it's pretty clear that I tried to phrase it as kindly as I possibly could. Not intended as an insult in the slightest, merely a purely subjective observation. You're welcome to disagree, even if you do seem very resistant to extending anyone else the same courtesy?

> All of your comments here trying to rebut it have been moving the goalposts each time I point out where you got the facts wrong.

I don't think I've moved the goalposts once. We're still on the original two claimed inconsistencies, neither of which I find inconsistent.

You're framing this discussion as though it were me that were hellbent on attacking you (for some reason?). I would respectfully suggest that it seems to be you that is irrationally upset over someone not agreeing with you.

> I don’t see any reason to continue trying to discuss anything

Awesome. Have a good one! :)

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

#127
I feel like companies over certain size needs to have live support to pester.

I had my youtube premium (back when it was red) banned for violating community guidelines - impossible since account was only used for viewing videos. Appeals got auto rejected... can only repeal every few weeks... oh at time account ban = cannot access accounts page so they kept charging for months while I appealed. Had to cancel credit card.

For reference I also had wechat account blocked in PRC... and show how got to talk to a human being and sort it out within a few business days.

Eventually youtube account restored... 2 YEARS LATER, OUT OF NOWHERE. I think maybe I posted on youtube google groups and someone eventually got to it, but who the hell knows.

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

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What an arrogant response. Do you think the average user understands where emails are stored or that google could rugpull at any moment?

Even just for offline access when on airplanes, when the internet/power is out. It's not just about rugpulls. Honestly it's a bit insulting to non-HN people to assume that they'd never want offline access or realize that having a single point of failure is a bad idea.

It’s reasonable to assume that a subset of the population thinks of these things. It is not unreasonable to assume that >50% of Gmail users have never considered it.

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

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post #40

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 fre…

Remember EU classified some companies as gatekeepers. Call them gatekeepers, monopolies, whatever - some companies are like "essential workers". They need to be available as much as essential workers were needed during covid. Which means at some point we need regulation that if you are an essential company, if you are a gatekeeper, you need to have a physical grievance office in your county if not the city, or you ne…

Question is weather the guy who got his account banned and lost access to all his data, was paying Google for cloud / hosting services or not.

If it was on the free plan then all bets are off. If he was paying for a service, I believe there is enough case for a lawsuit where Google pays through their teeth for basically taking the client's data hostage.

At some point I'll move my hosted services to one or more companies, which for a cost - essential point if you want legal protection - offer me their services. And if shit happens, I get my data back. And there is someone, a physical person that I can call when shit happens and they can't hide behind AI and automated replies. Otherwise I have real leverage to sue their ass and settle for mucho dinero so they learn to behave.

Seems to me Google is not such a "service provider" company, so it's naive to let them hold your data, with zero legal protection if they decide to take it hostage.

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

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post #108

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The story as OP tells it is that they appealed the ban, and the ban was upheld. Logically, they appealed the ban from an email address they had access to. I don't know how you get from 'all of their Google accounts were banned' to 'they had no possible way to send and receive email whatsoever'. > These Reddit stories always get some people invested in the story before the inconsistencies show up. You have to read the…

The mods of that subreddit appear to have come to the same conclusion. If you go into Reddit believing all of the posts by default and forgiving inconsistencies you’re going to be duped by a lot of fake stories. I think it’s interesting that someone posted a “my account just got busted for accidental CSAM” and nobody is concerned about the impending law enforcement consequences? Only about email access? If this reall…

> The mods of that subreddit appear to have come to the same conclusion.

Well, if someone whose main credential is "doesn't have a job and hence can moderate reddit full time" thinks it's true, it must be so.

> I think it’s interesting that someone posted a “my account just got busted for accidental CSAM” and nobody is concerned about the impending law enforcement consequences?

Because the law has due process? He didn't do anything wrong legally, and while his son may have, almost certainly nothing that will lead to significant consequences (at most an officer visiting and saying "don't do that").

> If this really happened then it would be referred to law enforcement

It probably was, and law enforcement probably put it on the big pile of "shit we don't have the resources to bother with". People are sending csam everywhere every day, much of it gets detected and turned into an automated report, a minority of that leads to an investigation. This probably will be an instance where it isn't.

> because companies don’t handle CSAM as internal matters that go through their appeals process. They get escalated to law enforcement.

They get... both? Obviously? They get escalated to law enforcement, AND the account gets banned. Then you can appeal that ban, and whoever handles the appeal will look at the ban reason and say "sorry, it's sticking".

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