Google suspends romance author's account for writing sexually explicit content
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Re: Google suspends romance author's account for writing sexually explicit content
#2Google repeatedly letting it be known that they are simply a huge liability.
Re: Google suspends romance author's account for writing sexually explicit content
#3Google repeatedly letting it be known that they are simply a huge liability.
American companies are prudes, as the country tends to lean that way, nothing new really. Seems people never learn though, which is more worrisome.
Re: Google suspends romance author's account for writing sexually explicit content
#4The post only says "An author lost access to her explicit writing", which sound to me that she cannot access that document anymore, not her account got suspended (I skimmed over comments and didn't see people said otherwise).
Of course in this particular case, it might be worse (because she lost her entire writing if without backup), but it's not the same as losing an account.
Anyway, it won't surprise me if she did also lose the account. In my experience, any shared documents or files (for Google Drive) are always very strictly moderated.
Re: Google suspends romance author's account for writing sexually explicit content
#5The only thing I use gdocs for is collaboration. What are some of y'all's favorite alternatives?
Re: Google suspends romance author's account for writing sexually explicit content
#6"I keep all my work on Google/Apple/Dropbox/Office" is really the new version of "I kept all my work on my hard drive and didn't back it up". All of these companies have shown repeatedly that they will cut off your access with no notice for any or no reason and with no recourse. Cloud backups used to be a smart thing to do. Now they are a liability.
Re: Google suspends romance author's account for writing sexually explicit content
#7The only thing I use gdocs for is collaboration. What are some of y'all's favorite alternatives?
Notion is okay. a bit heavy mem-wise(). i don't know how much it costs.
() Recently I had a tab taking 644MB in Chromium (with no pix). After a ctrl-A, ctrl-C, and ctrl-V into notepad++, it was 52kB. That's about 10,000x...
Re: Google suspends romance author's account for writing sexually explicit content
#8The post only says "An author lost access to her explicit writing", which sound to me that she cannot access that document anymore, not her account got suspended (I skimmed over comments and didn't see people said otherwise). Of course in this particular case, it might be worse (because she lost her entire writing if without backup), but it's not the same as losing an account. Anyway, it won't surprise me if she did…
The Instagram post (https://www.instagram.com/sloan_spencer_author/p/C48JN_TrvxO) states:
> one romance author explain that all her work was suspended by Google [...] She has no access to these files or her other works
That would seem like an account suspension, not just one document.
Edit: I guess it might also be a Google Drive/Docs specific suspension, rather than Google-wide.
Re: Google suspends romance author's account for writing sexually explicit content
#9The only thing I use gdocs for is collaboration. What are some of y'all's favorite alternatives?
I always liked Quip. https://quip.com/
Re: Google suspends romance author's account for writing sexually explicit content
#10The post only says "An author lost access to her explicit writing", which sound to me that she cannot access that document anymore, not her account got suspended (I skimmed over comments and didn't see people said otherwise). Of course in this particular case, it might be worse (because she lost her entire writing if without backup), but it's not the same as losing an account. Anyway, it won't surprise me if she did…
From the thread it sounds like they only took away their ability to share. They still have access to the account and everything on it.