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

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

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I’m just over here trying to understand why or how you would do that to Gemini Live. >Visual Context: On mobile, you can choose to share your camera feed or screen. This allows you to ask questions about what you are looking at in the real world or get help with tasks on your device. >Common Use Cases • Brainstorming: Talking through ideas for a project or event. • Role-playing: Practicing for a job interview or a di…

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

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>Also, family account? My understanding is that Google banned all users that had been logged into that family device.

Why not ban the offending account only? Is there a logic i'm missing?

From Google's point of view, very little downstairs to banning those other accounts. And the upside is that they reduce their legal risk: "We automatically blocked the account that was generating the kiddie porn, as well as the other accounts that had been logged into that device."

It's probably as simple as that…

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

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Are you not aware of a million of dedicated competitive services for each of this to jump to "self-hosting" as the only alternative? > All my emails, all my documents saved in Google Drive.

How many of those competitive services would also lock the account if something like this happened?

Yes, these stories should scare you off of cloud services in general, not one particular vendor. The root problem is that you're storing valuable information on "someone else's computer." And that someone can decide to stop serving you for any or no reason at all, and you are without recourse. This should be totally unacceptable, but somehow the world has normalized it.

Don't keep anything in a cloud service that you couldn't live with losing, unless you keep a local backup. Including and especially your identity (E-mail) which unlocks all your accounts.

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

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

>Also, family account? My understanding is that Google banned all users that had been logged into that family device.

Why not ban the offending account only? Is there a logic i'm missing?

Yes, the logic you're missing is "protect the children"

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

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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.

The description by OP in comments like https://old.reddit.com/r/LegalAdviceUK/comments/1s92fql/my_s... seems to strongly imply that all the accounts were unconnected in a GSuite sense, and they are being slowly recursively banned by Google based on indirect connections like recovery emails or co-presence on a device. I don't see any reasonable way they could have saved themselves besides something crazy like requirin…

That detail is where I first paused and realize this story is more likely a creative writing exercise than a factual account

They had a separate claim that after the bannings and after the son admitted what he did, they received an email confirming that the accounts were banned for “child protection”

Received where? They just claimed all of their accounts were banned first, including linked recovery accounts.

Also where is the text of that email? Communications like that are key to legal matters yet it was only shared as a passing comment

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

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This is terrifying (I have 2 young kids, but they'll get there). How do I avoid that? When is a Google account considered linked? If I log into 2 google accounts and swap between them, are the accounts considered linked? Also, I have plenty of photos of my kids naked when they were little (my son refused to wear anything for 1 year), do I have to be concerned?

>Also, I have plenty of photos of my kids naked when they were little (my son refused to wear anything for 1 year), do I have to be concerned?

This is America, of course you have to be concerned.

Google has family groups where you invite people to your family. I'm assuming they had that set up. I guess if you want to manage your children's accounts you have to do it from a burner Google account.

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