If I had to guess, there’s more to this story than they’re telling us. I’ve literally never heard of anyone losing access to their personal, legal files on Google drive because it violates their ToS. Google is a shit company and should be avoided, but this story just sounds like rage bait and maybe even just “organic” advertising for Scrivener.
But again, that story above makes sense as to why it was initially triggered (i.e. Google’s automated child porn detection bots flagged the picture and account). Was it done wrongfully? Sure, that seems to be the case. But, that’s not really relevant to the original post since that’s not what happened to this person. I feel like we’d be seeing way more news about authors having their books randomly locked out from them because Google just randomly decided to enforce a specific ToS violation on their account.
They don’t. But they also don’t care if they make mistakes, and since you aren’t paying for a bussiness account, they aren’t gonna listen to your appeals.
If I had to guess, there’s more to this story than they’re telling us. I’ve literally never heard of anyone losing access to their personal, legal files on Google drive because it violates their ToS. Google is a shit company and should be avoided, but this story just sounds like rage bait and maybe even just “organic” advertising for Scrivener.
Yeah, not a lot of details in this case. Unfortunately though, Google has previously banned accounts that don’t contain any illegal content and appealing it is a fools errand: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/21/technology/google-surveillance-toddler-photo.html
But again, that story above makes sense as to why it was initially triggered (i.e. Google’s automated child porn detection bots flagged the picture and account). Was it done wrongfully? Sure, that seems to be the case. But, that’s not really relevant to the original post since that’s not what happened to this person. I feel like we’d be seeing way more news about authors having their books randomly locked out from them because Google just randomly decided to enforce a specific ToS violation on their account.
Google doesn’t even care about hosting pirated content on Drive as long as you’re not sharing it to others.
I doubt they do, too. I’m just pointing out how ridiculous the picture above sounds without knowing the full story.
They don’t. But they also don’t care if they make mistakes, and since you aren’t paying for a bussiness account, they aren’t gonna listen to your appeals.