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Re:Can Beethoven send takedown requests? by mooman219 on Friday August 31, 2018 @05:28PM (#17888715)
Ah that sounds like such a frustrating experience. It may be selection bias since I'm on HN a lot, but this sounds like a common situation.

If you were a developer at YouTube, what do you think could be done to fix this? Personally, I think a starter is only suspending a user from the specific service they "violated" the TOS on instead of their who freaking account. I don't know how content-id works, but preventing double jeopardy for a flag sounds like a good starting point. Obviously getting human support is a train-wreck and it goes without saying that needs to be fixed.

Re:Can Beethoven send takedown requests? by hegz on Friday August 31, 2018 @09:04PM (#17889539)
Google randomly locking out users seems to be pretty common. I have had them randomly lock me out of google docs files for "ToS violations" only to have the file unlock a few days later. Ever since that happened I stopped using google services to store my stuff.
Re:Can Beethoven send takedown requests? by gammatrigono on Friday August 31, 2018 @08:11PM (#17889355)
This isn't a developer level design decision. This is executive level.