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Google Drive of historical footage locked and flagged as terrorist activity

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Re: Google Drive of historical footage locked and flagged as terrorist activity

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Post by uncoder0 »

jwalton wrote: post #133
CydeWeys wrote: post #105

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Amazon banned me (for something completely unrelated to Kindle books), and I lost access to everything on Kindle as a result. It's a good thing I hadn't spent much money there, and obviously I'm not buying any ebooks going forward.

Buy ebooks from Baen directly, or from Tor on your service of choice. These publishers release books DRM free, so you actually own the file. Any other ebooks you “buy”, you’re renting.

Alternatively if it's not available DRM free I'll just buy it and support the author from wherever and then pirate a DRM free copy and archive it.

Re: Google Drive of historical footage locked and flagged as terrorist activity

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Post by sangnoir »

shoto_io wrote: post #83
ecshafer wrote: post #2

I will upvote and comment to hopefully gain visibility at the minimum. Google really has an unfortunate customer support set up, in that there isn't one. Your best bet when Google does something bad to their customers like this (And regardless if its a bad AI or bad bot, its still Google doing it), is to post it on twitter or hackernews and hope it gets the visibility for a Google employee to fix it, or contact someo…

I recently decided against G Drive and for office.com for our tiny startup. One reason being the unreliable customer support often mentioned here on HN. I hope MS customer support is better…

Google Workspace has excellent support - unlike Google's free offerings.

Re: Google Drive of historical footage locked and flagged as terrorist activity

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Post by aprao »

falcor84 wrote: post #145
shadowgovt wrote: post #130

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It doesn't exactly have widespread support; it's more that nobody can propose a better solution that doesn't blow the budget completely out of the water.

Here's one - how about allowing you to pay to get official support if your account has been locked. And maybe even, god forbid, refund you if your complaint had merit.

I can see the claims now - "Google is holding my account ransom for $XX/hr of customer support!"

Re: Google Drive of historical footage locked and flagged as terrorist activity

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Post by franczesko »

aboringusername wrote: post #6

Aside from all the moral and ethical questions this raises from the usage of faceless AI, really this happens time and again, I suspect so Google can employ less human reviewers and so they can claim "not our fault". I think I've commented on a couple of these posts by now every time with the same advice. But anyhow, people should be well aware cloud providers do use AI systems and they will make mistakes, so you sho…

+ never rely on login with [provider_name]

Re: Google Drive of historical footage locked and flagged as terrorist activity

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Post by Ensorceled »

notyourday wrote: post #88

Is he on a free plan? Because if so, I see exactly zero basis for his complaint. He got what he paid for. P.S. No, I'm not saying that Google is in the right.

> I see exactly zero basis for his complaint.

> P.S. No, I'm not saying that Google is in the right.

You are, however, clearly saying they are not in the wrong...

I'm not sure that difference matters.

Re: Google Drive of historical footage locked and flagged as terrorist activity

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Post by travoc »

ecshafer wrote: post #2

I will upvote and comment to hopefully gain visibility at the minimum. Google really has an unfortunate customer support set up, in that there isn't one. Your best bet when Google does something bad to their customers like this (And regardless if its a bad AI or bad bot, its still Google doing it), is to post it on twitter or hackernews and hope it gets the visibility for a Google employee to fix it, or contact someo…

That’s why making your business completely dependent on AWS or GCP is absolutely insane.

Re: Google Drive of historical footage locked and flagged as terrorist activity

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Post by PKop »

saxonww wrote: post #136
verisimi wrote: post #128

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Well, when you're making an omelette you have to break some eggs. There has been a literal, yet largely silent, book burning going on with Google services in recent years. On youtube, many alternative voices are silenced, billions of comments deleted. I know its a private company, but in the US there are free speech laws + the possibility of using the court system (if someone makes a libellous statement). But no, sil…

Please don't characterize this as a political voices thing. Of course it's _related_, but this instance is about misclassification of private data, not silencing voices online. Also, Google is not a private company.

The nature of the problem (a big monopolist behemoth of a corporation is too big and powerful and lacks incentives to change) and the solution (only state action, regulation, mandates, i.e. something more powerful than Google must enforce Google to act) is by definition a political problem. This is like the epitome of what politics is for.

Re: Google Drive of historical footage locked and flagged as terrorist activity

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Post by throwawayswede »

Why the heck do people still store their important documents (that they absolutely can’t do without) somewhere where they have no control over and where they could be kicked out at any moment is beyond me.

Obviously it’s always sad to see such a great amount of work go to waste, but at what point are we just going to start blaming people like that who are just careless with their data.

Don’t use a cloud you don’t have total control over for something that you absolutely need control over. At the very least don’t use fucking google.

Re: Google Drive of historical footage locked and flagged as terrorist activity

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Post by adolph »

Dylovell wrote: post #148
B1FF_PSUVM wrote: post #129

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I have no activity on YouTube, Blogger, or any other Google service since they tied up all the accounts, just to minimize the chance of getting my Gmail chopped off. (Note to self: stop giving feedback on Maps routing. You never know.)

Man, That's dark. "You went to X location a few years ago, now there's bad stuff happening there. Your google account is banned." Leave your phone at home if your are going to protest, no matter what or where you are protesting.

Eh, eventually they’ll cut you off for not attending the good protests. Better off expecting to be cut off and redundantify your dependencies.
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