Google is now applying its coronavirus misinformation policies to personal files

Re:Google is now applying its coronavirus misinformation pol... by chockablocker on Friday May 22, 2020 @02:56PM (#23275603)

Note that the article doesn't say explicitly whether Google deleted the video from drive, or simply disabled the public sharing of the video. If they only disabled sharing (like they would for spam, pirated materials etc.) this may be understandable.

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Re:Google is now applying its coronavirus misinformation pol... by darkerside on Friday May 22, 2020 @03:41PM (#23276050)

This is a hugely important distinction. Can we please figure this out before we pick up the pitchforks?

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Re:Google is now applying its coronavirus misinformation pol... by jfoster on Friday May 22, 2020 @04:16PM (#23276450)

The headline ("Google Drive takes down user’s personal copy...") is suggestive of the file being entirely gone. There's a couple of paragraphs in the article that would seem to support this, but agree that it would be good to have it made very explicit.

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Re:Google is now applying its coronavirus misinformation pol... by deepl_derber on Friday May 22, 2020 @06:27PM (#23277781)

Since Drive doesn't generally delete users' files for policy violations maybe the safer assumption is to assume that it wasn't deleted unless there's evidence that strongly suggests otherwise.

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