Why Did ProtonMail Vanish from Google Search Results? (2016)

Re:Why Did ProtonMail Vanish from Google Search Results? (2016) by Quarrelsome on Thursday November 30, 2017 @04:29AM (#15814500)

Are we complaining that you can't put up a poster explicitly designed to incite violence against anti-fascists with a ProtonMail email address? I'd imagine they might also disable your account if you use swastikas as your logo, is that "awful censorship"? If you wanna do that sort of stuff then roll your own ffs. Consider that they might have some form of legal liability.

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Re:Why Did ProtonMail Vanish from Google Search Results? (2016) by wallace_f on Thursday November 30, 2017 @04:34AM (#15814524)

I thought the complaint was that someone else could put up a poster of your email address with a swastila next to it, and you'd get banned for it.

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Re:Why Did ProtonMail Vanish from Google Search Results? (2016) by PhasmaFelis on Thursday November 30, 2017 @04:38AM (#15814542)

Please see my other post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15814530

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Re:Why Did ProtonMail Vanish from Google Search Results? (2016) by def_true_false on Thursday November 30, 2017 @07:16AM (#15815138)

Liability for what? What if the user used a random string for their address instead? Does one have to pretend to agree with their provider's politics or fear having their accounts deleted?

Some people would probably assume that they won't have to do that, since PM doesn't really present their service as exclusive to people with certain political leanings (unlike, say, riseup).

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Re:Why Did ProtonMail Vanish from Google Search Results? (2016) by mindondrugs on Thursday November 30, 2017 @04:32AM (#15814513)

Exactly this, complaining that a site banned you for breaking ToS is kinda stupid.

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Re:Why Did ProtonMail Vanish from Google Search Results? (2016) by flipp3r on Thursday November 30, 2017 @04:35AM (#15814529)

What the parent post was saying is that anyone can print out a piece of paper with your mail address on it, complain on twitter, and ProtonMail's feeling-based policy will have you banned.

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Re:Why Did ProtonMail Vanish from Google Search Results? (2016) by abricot on Thursday November 30, 2017 @05:00AM (#15814647)

Feeling-based? That is bulshit.

Do you have other examples than the obvious white-pride hate-group?

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Re:Why Did ProtonMail Vanish from Google Search Results? (2016) by flipp3r on Thursday November 30, 2017 @05:41AM (#15814801)

We're now 5+ posts down the tree and people still aren't getting the post, probably the reason it was flagged and silenced.

Currently a human is making the judgement call to ban someone, based on their feelings. They could very well be looking at misinformation, but have no way of verifying.

The address banned could be completely unrelated to this hate group, maybe the hate group doesn't even exist, this is the point the poster was making. You easily can misinform, and get someone behind a protonmail address banned.

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Re:Why Did ProtonMail Vanish from Google Search Results? (2016) by PhasmaFelis on Thursday November 30, 2017 @05:47AM (#15814824)

Please see my other post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15814530

For future reference, since the OP is now gone, the address in question was [email protected].

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