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> that there is no serious appeals process, and no third party oversight of moderation decisions Yes there is, see [0] - also posted by me in another reply in

> that there is no serious appeals process, and no third party oversight of moderation decisions Yes there is, see [0] - also posted by me in another reply in this thread, where I mention that my own YouTube account was suspended identically to OP earlier this year, but was restored 3-4 hours after filling out the form. The decision may or may not have been AI-driven, but I'm pretty sure there was a human in the loop behind the solution. Don't mistake me for a Google fanboy - I had my primary Gmail account locked last week for daring to use a VPN, so I'm currently looking at de-Googling myself a bit. But to be fair, I was able to fix both issues within a few hours. [0] https://support.google.com/accounts/contact/suspended?p=youtube&visit_id=637744028008188719-2596566682&rd=1 https://support.google.com/accounts/contact/suspended?p=yout...

LegitShady 5y ago
>had my primary Gmail account locked last week for daring to use a VPN, yikes I check my gmail behind a VPN semi regularly. Now I'm worried.
- Hard_Space 5y ago
  I forgot, to be honest, that I had two other Gmail logins running on my headless tower at the other end of the room, so requests were coming from my country and from the US simultaneously. Since I wasn't trying to evade geoblocking, I now use a VPN that's set to my own city AND I shut down the applications on the headless machine. But that still leaves my phone sucking in mails on a non-VPN connection, and that's not so easy to fix, because I'm damned if I'll switch it off every time I need a VPN, or trouble myself to use a VPN on that too. So, yeah, in general I'm worried too. Personally I think we'll look back on VPN use in five years the way that early 20thC cocaine addicts fondly remember when you could just buy the stuff over the counter without a scrip in pharmacies. Sorry to see China setting the pace on this one.

LegitShady 5y ago

>had my primary Gmail account locked last week for daring to use a VPN, yikes I check my gmail behind a VPN semi regularly. Now I'm worried.

Hard_Space 5y ago
I forgot, to be honest, that I had two other Gmail logins running on my headless tower at the other end of the room, so requests were coming from my country and from the US simultaneously. Since I wasn't trying to evade geoblocking, I now use a VPN that's set to my own city AND I shut down the applications on the headless machine. But that still leaves my phone sucking in mails on a non-VPN connection, and that's not so easy to fix, because I'm damned if I'll switch it off every time I need a VPN, or trouble myself to use a VPN on that too. So, yeah, in general I'm worried too. Personally I think we'll look back on VPN use in five years the way that early 20thC cocaine addicts fondly remember when you could just buy the stuff over the counter without a scrip in pharmacies. Sorry to see China setting the pace on this one.