Proton won’t lock me out of my email because I accidentally sang a copyrighted song in a Youtube video. That’s why I use it, not because it’s the pirate bay for email.

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latexr a day ago | parent [-]

> Proton won’t lock me out of my email because I accidentally sang a copyrighted song in a Youtube video.

Is there a specific story you’re referring to? Mind sharing a link? I have no intention of disputing it, I just haven’t heard of that particular case.

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kube-system 20 hours ago | parent | next [-]

They updated YouTube rules so it no longer is the case.

But just the other week there were stories all over HN about Google banning accounts for accidental Gemini ToS violations

	▲	latexr 13 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I’m aware Google bans accounts for wrong reasons, what I’m asking is about a case (as implied by OP) where they seemingly did so because someone sang a copyrighted song in a video. There are different degrees of bad, and that one would be up there. You say it no longer is the case because they changed the rules. So does that mean it did happen? Could you share a link?

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laweijfmvo 21 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

there are plenty of examples throughout history, although i haven’t heard much about it recently. tl;dr you don’t have a gmail account, you have a google account. if that account gets banned on one service, you may lose everything.

	▲	latexr 13 hours ago \| parent [-]
		> tl;dr you don’t have a gmail account, you have a google account. if that account gets banned on one service, you may lose everything. I’m perfectly aware. > there are plenty of examples throughout history I’m not asking about plenty of them, I’m asking about one. Has there been a case where, as you said, Google has banned an account because someone sang a copyrighted song in a video? That’s the one I want to read about. I don’t have any sympathy for large corporations and I don’t use Google services, I just want to be informed about draconian tech decisions. Did you make up that story? It’s OK if you did as a hyperbole, I just want to know.