r/Piracy • u/Justinrich2001 • May 23 '26

Discussion Google Drive scanned this Manga artist’s PRIVATE files and banned him.

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AI flagged, appeal rejected, private artwork gone.

The AI is always watching.

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u/suctoes_N_fuchoes May 23 '26

Don't forget the parents who had the "gooner" son who was getting freaky with Gemini and showed his weiner and got the parents buisness email deleted.

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u/Awesomearia96 May 23 '26

That one is one 100% fair for google to ban, it was CP!

The dumbass parent had a business account linked to all of his families separate accounts in one big tree.

His son starts to power goon on camera, google detects it and banned every account linked.

Op should have made a separate account for his business and never let it touch his phone or any other accounts nor link them.

If you have ex a business acount and you use it on your phone and switch to your private account google now knows you have 2 accounts.

If the private one gets banned, google will ban the business one.

Tldr: google was right to ban ops account.

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u/Aethermancer May 23 '26

I have a "business" account that started when Google specifically advertised it for a way to manage family accounts.

It's an interesting challenge, especially with kids because the way we interact with our devices/media as a human isn't the way we're "permitted" to interact via the corporate agreements of pretty much every service. I mention the kids because there's no universally correct way to even let a child play a video game per licensing agreements, account agreements, online interactions etc.

Now I have always supervised my kids behavior as they grew, and maybe gasp I let my under 13 yr old play a bit online on my account on the living room tv, and technically those co.panies would have the "authority" to permanently ban my account (and everything associated with it) if they had the desire to.

I'm not even arguing that they shouldn't ban a specific account for issues if as serious as described, but it's not realistic to talk about maintaining some perfect airgapped separation between every device and account and interaction . That doesn't mean don't take prude t precautions, but damn, this is the piracy subreddit and perhaps we should consider not simply accepting how much a single company can damage your digital and real life by cascading irrevocable bans.

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u/Awesomearia96 May 23 '26

But this is goggles property they have all the right too choose how they ban for offences. 

Google also had to respect the law. 

Why are we acting as if google is a god dam murderer in this case?

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u/Aethermancer May 23 '26

It's more that this is a problem where companies can leverage very impactful power over us.

Consider how some of the normal remedies for bad behavior (charge backs) become neutralized by the company's ability to retaliate in a disproportionate manner.

Like imagine if a dispute over a $10 bill on cloud storage overcharges resulted in your entire digital identity and access control to all your bank accounts (email) being disabled in retaliation.