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> Because of a keyword monitor picked up by their auto-moderation bot Can you elaborate on that? What do they monitor with the moderation bot?

by dewey 8y ago

asah 8y ago
+1 - I'm curious as well.
harryh 8y ago
"because of the grey area of our tech" "told us straight out that it would and we should move" Sounds shady. I bet this would make more sense if OP explained what his company actually does.
- golfer 8y ago
  Exactly -- there is a lot the OP isn't telling us. Maybe Google was right to shut them down.
  - __david__ 8y ago
    I'd rather my cloud provider err on the permissive side. Preemptively shutting suspicious things down without an external complaint seems a bit much…
  - nodesocket 8y ago
    Yup, agree. OP was probably doing something against the terms. Care to provide details?
  - justinclift 8y ago
    Well, there are all kinds of grey area stuff. One fairly obvious example is various security services, which have a wide variety. Not everything is outright "likely to get banned" (eg pron things). ;)
- path411 8y ago
  Well, "grey" can mean a lot of things when you are talking about the same company that moderates Youtube.
purerandomness 8y ago
The point is that anyone could fall into that category when laws change. Imagine you're running a cosplay community, and all of a sudden all your content is being deleted because the SESTA/FOSTA bill gets passed in a country where your "cloud" happens to reside in: https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/18/03/25/0614209/sex-workers-say-porn-on-google-drive-is-suddenly-disappearing https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/18/03/25/0614209/sex-wor...
pests 8y ago
I know they specifically ban cryptocurrency mining on their free credit / tier. Even called out on their public product pages. I assumed they could tell that via CPU usage with they already monitor for quotas.

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> Because of a keyword monitor picked up by their auto-moderation bot Can you elaborate on that? What do they monitor with the moderation bot?

by dewey 8y ago

> Because of a keyword monitor picked up by their auto-moderation bot Can you elaborate on that? What do they monitor with the moderation bot?

asah 8y ago
+1 - I'm curious as well.
harryh 8y ago
"because of the grey area of our tech" "told us straight out that it would and we should move" Sounds shady. I bet this would make more sense if OP explained what his company actually does.
- golfer 8y ago
  Exactly -- there is a lot the OP isn't telling us. Maybe Google was right to shut them down.
  - __david__ 8y ago
    I'd rather my cloud provider err on the permissive side. Preemptively shutting suspicious things down without an external complaint seems a bit much…
  - nodesocket 8y ago
    Yup, agree. OP was probably doing something against the terms. Care to provide details?
  - justinclift 8y ago
    Well, there are all kinds of grey area stuff. One fairly obvious example is various security services, which have a wide variety. Not everything is outright "likely to get banned" (eg pron things). ;)
- path411 8y ago
  Well, "grey" can mean a lot of things when you are talking about the same company that moderates Youtube.
purerandomness 8y ago
The point is that anyone could fall into that category when laws change. Imagine you're running a cosplay community, and all of a sudden all your content is being deleted because the SESTA/FOSTA bill gets passed in a country where your "cloud" happens to reside in: https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/18/03/25/0614209/sex-workers-say-porn-on-google-drive-is-suddenly-disappearing https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/18/03/25/0614209/sex-wor...
pests 8y ago
I know they specifically ban cryptocurrency mining on their free credit / tier. Even called out on their public product pages. I assumed they could tell that via CPU usage with they already monitor for quotas.