Re:Google Drive flags file only containing “1” for copyright...
by thfuran on Monday January 24, 2022 @07:37PM
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>They have a habit of completely restricting all ways of appealing or contesting these issues ostensibly because they think their tech is so good that it isn't required
Are you sure it's not just because providing them would cost money?
Re:Google Drive flags file only containing “1” for copyright...
by rezonant on Monday January 24, 2022 @09:26PM
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They'll certainly cost money. Can they afford it? Yeah, they can.
I think the issue is that Google thinks that operational scale is what defines the correct solution- even when they are not at the scale that requires the solution they are using. They seem so enamored with operating at stupidly high scale that they don't realize they actually can afford to do this right, and if they did that while being mindful of scale, they would be much harder to displace than they currently are.
Google cannot have it both ways though. They have a habit of completely restricting all ways of appealing or contesting these issues ostensibly because they think their tech is so good that it isn't required (at least in the vast majority of cases), and yet we have people permanently locked out of their personal and work GMails for months on end (or indefinitely) and now being accused of copyright infringement for the digit "1", with a bold assertion at the end of the email saying "This restriction cannot be reviewed".
Google's become so big that collapse/disruption is inevitable.