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There's virtually no chance that the automated system that banned him knew the account belonged to someone with whom Stadia was doing business. Even if we assum
by hn_go_brrrrr 6y ago
There's virtually no chance that the automated system that banned him knew the account belonged to someone with whom Stadia was doing business. Even if we assume there's a list of high profile people/accounts not to automatically disable, I can't see him being on it.
- philjohn 6y agoIt's possible to have a system that marks high profile accounts that shouldn't have automated actions applied ... that it appears Google doesn't have something like this is worrying.
- codetrotter 6y agoThen again, if all high profile accounts were exempt from being auto banned then there would be even less chance of problems being brought to light.
- avh02 6y agothey then become high profile targets for takeovers, and can run amok for too long before being disabled.
- brynjolf 6y agoHe is developer of Terraria including their official Youtube has been suspended. What does a guy have to do to become a true Scotsman? Fall acy?
- ZephyrBlu 6y agoI think the point is that he has direct business with Google and yet _even he_ can't get his account unbanned. If someone in that position is screwed, an average joe is most definitely screwed.
- berdario 6y agoNotably, it also happened to an employee's husband: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24791357 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24791357
- ZephyrBlu 6y agoI think I'm going to spend the next few days working on a backup strategy for all my google related data and accounts...
- speedgoose 6y agoI would start with takeout.google.com and put that in cold storage in a good cloud provider (obviously not google cloud).
- PixyMisa 6y agoGood luck with that. My Takeout export was supposed to start three days ago.
- ZephyrBlu 6y agoAlready downloading my takeout export as I write this comment :). Will probably use backblaze for backup cloud storage of stuff.
- oneeyedpigeon 6y agoThanks; I've initiated that process on your advice. Is the data in a reasonable format and not just something you can re-import into a replacement google account?