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On a happier note, he's in Europe, and he's filing a lawsuit. If there's enough pressure on Google, they might be a little less trigger-happy with deletions (lo

by Cpoll 10y ago

On a happier note, he's in Europe, and he's filing a lawsuit. If there's enough pressure on Google, they might be a little less trigger-happy with deletions (lock the blog and set it so only the owner can view it). This may be wishful thinking, and it probably hurts more when your @gmail.com is disabled.

ganeshkrishnan 10y ago
Google depends on it's bots to pull the trigger and there is absolutely no way to contest it. I have mentioned before on HN to a guy who said that he had "nothing to fear about Google" that if & when google brings down it's ban hammer then you are kicked out of google search, gmail, drive, docs, adwords, adsense and everything you consider holy. All your documents are gone one fine morning when you wake up. Worst is you sometimes have no idea why and it's a lifetime ban
- droidist2 10y ago
  Yeah, nobody bans like Google
- akerro 10y ago
  >All your documents are gone one fine morning when you wake up. Worst is you sometimes have no idea why and it's a lifetime ban And there is no way to contact them about it or get information why you got banned. I was banned like that.
breakingcups 10y ago
I'm pretty sure the ToS allows Google to close an account for any reason they see fit. I would not place a lot of trust in a lawsuit in this case myself. There's something very scary about account closures like these and the lack of appeal opportunity. In general Google's support is abysmal, but I can somewhat see how providing support for all free users would be extremely expensive. However to wake up one day and find that everything you trusted Google to keep safe is now locked away from you without any avenue of reaching a human to appeal, or even just to get a copy of your data is quite scary.
- kempe 10y ago
  Google feels a bit more evil for every day that go by.
tdkl 10y ago
> they might be a little less trigger-happy One extra line of "optimisation" in the removal AI. That's basically how Google handles those cases, it's all AI. If that's the future, then fuck that.

by Cpoll 10y ago

ganeshkrishnan 10y ago

Google depends on it's bots to pull the trigger and there is absolutely no way to contest it. I have mentioned before on HN to a guy who said that he had "nothing to fear about Google" that if & when google brings down it's ban hammer then you are kicked out of google search, gmail, drive, docs, adwords, adsense and everything you consider holy. All your documents are gone one fine morning when you wake up. Worst is you sometimes have no idea why and it's a lifetime ban

droidist2 10y ago
Yeah, nobody bans like Google
akerro 10y ago
>All your documents are gone one fine morning when you wake up. Worst is you sometimes have no idea why and it's a lifetime ban And there is no way to contact them about it or get information why you got banned. I was banned like that.

breakingcups 10y ago

I'm pretty sure the ToS allows Google to close an account for any reason they see fit. I would not place a lot of trust in a lawsuit in this case myself. There's something very scary about account closures like these and the lack of appeal opportunity. In general Google's support is abysmal, but I can somewhat see how providing support for all free users would be extremely expensive. However to wake up one day and find that everything you trusted Google to keep safe is now locked away from you without any avenue of reaching a human to appeal, or even just to get a copy of your data is quite scary.

kempe 10y ago
Google feels a bit more evil for every day that go by.

tdkl 10y ago

> they might be a little less trigger-happy One extra line of "optimisation" in the removal AI. That's basically how Google handles those cases, it's all AI. If that's the future, then fuck that.