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He said he has all his YouTube content backed up, but besides this livelihood, most of his Google digital existence will be wiped without backup, including two

He said he has all his YouTube content backed up, but besides this livelihood, most of his Google digital existence will be wiped without backup, including two decades of photos of loved ones. tldr; is that his Google account (all services) is scheduled for deletion by Google with no explanation or recourse. He thinks it might be because he stored some Spanish-language chatroom transcripts on his Google Drive as research for a story, without realizing the content, which might be hate speech. But he's in the dystopia of getting his life erased and no way to fix it... So he's shouting out for somebody from Google/Youtube, so if you that person reading this on HN, that's why the video exists.

throwaway81523 1y ago
> photos of loved ones Can't he download thst stuff if he has some runway? Then be glad to get off of Google.
Suzuran 1y ago
Is this the part where we start victim-blaming because platform? I feel like this is the part where we start victim-blaming because platform.
graemep 1y ago
There are legitimate reasons for storing hate speech, such as this. I have uploaded hate speech to Dropbox to share with other people who might complain to FB that it was being shared there. Relying on cloud services to this extent is a risk.
rasz 1y ago
>Spanish-language chatroom transcripts let me guess, its about that Spanish superSega scammer eldr: some Spanish scammer with history of crowdfunding grift decided to replicate Amico Intellivision scam (selling preorders for nonexistent hardware). Made a crowdfunding campaign for FPGA Sega console demonstrating PCB with few components soldered in random places and random lol routing and pretending to play games on it. After being called out he doubled down bringing "independent third party" to verify legitimacy of his claims who happens to be his girlfriends brother/sisters boyfriend? Very sloppy as far as scam crowdfunding campaigns go, on a level of African prince.
- neomantra 1y ago
  To be clear, according to OP video, OP made content revealing the scam, then followed the scammer into the Chatrooms and archived it. OP is not the scammer; they explicitly do not ask for financial assistance but rather connection to Google support.

throwaway81523 1y ago

> photos of loved ones Can't he download thst stuff if he has some runway? Then be glad to get off of Google.

Suzuran 1y ago

Is this the part where we start victim-blaming because platform? I feel like this is the part where we start victim-blaming because platform.

graemep 1y ago

There are legitimate reasons for storing hate speech, such as this. I have uploaded hate speech to Dropbox to share with other people who might complain to FB that it was being shared there. Relying on cloud services to this extent is a risk.

rasz 1y ago

>Spanish-language chatroom transcripts let me guess, its about that Spanish superSega scammer eldr: some Spanish scammer with history of crowdfunding grift decided to replicate Amico Intellivision scam (selling preorders for nonexistent hardware). Made a crowdfunding campaign for FPGA Sega console demonstrating PCB with few components soldered in random places and random lol routing and pretending to play games on it. After being called out he doubled down bringing "independent third party" to verify legitimacy of his claims who happens to be his girlfriends brother/sisters boyfriend? Very sloppy as far as scam crowdfunding campaigns go, on a level of African prince.

neomantra 1y ago
To be clear, according to OP video, OP made content revealing the scam, then followed the scammer into the Chatrooms and archived it. OP is not the scammer; they explicitly do not ask for financial assistance but rather connection to Google support.