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I found the following cryptic snippet, from the Guardian's coverage of this topic: "He had a featured post, twice a month, where he would take ads by escorts a
by whack 10y ago
I found the following cryptic snippet, from the Guardian's coverage of this topic:
"He had a featured post, twice a month, where he would take ads by escorts and highlight their literary qualities."
I have little idea what the above really means, but it almost sounds like advertising/marketing for prostitution. My best guess at the moment, is that Google considered the above to be a flagrant violation of its rules, and hence, shut down his page immediately.
I can understand if Google considers certain aspects of his page to be unacceptable, but I wish they had notified him of the reason for their decision, and given him a week's time to download all his data and transition to a different website. As someone who relies on gmail/drive very heavily for important documents/correspondence, reading something like this makes me feel quite uneasy.
- pavel_lishin 10y agoIt sounds more like satire to me.
- mrgoldenbrown 10y agoThe quickest way to stop feeling uneasy is to back up your gmail and drive data immediately.
- JohnTHaller 10y agoHe was taking existing ads for escorts in the wild and critiquing them as satire.
- whack 10y agoAh, I see what you're saying. By "take ads from escorts", I assumed that meant that he was literally allowing escorts to post ads on his page. What you're saying seems more reasonable.
- tamana 10y agoAre you sure it is "satire"?
- Sylos 10y agoDefinitely fits the definition: > A literary device of writing or art which principally ridicules its subject often as an intended means of provoking or preventing change. Humour, irony and exaggeration are often used to aid this.
- DominikD 10y agoBut shouldn't satire be pointed at powerful and not powerless?
- knorker 10y agoLook up the case of "Thomas monopoly". Google is legally not allowed to give notice or even reason in the case of child porn. I have no idea if this is the case this time, but seems not impossible.