When Google Cuts Off Access: Poland and the World

immibis2

This is not the first time someone has experienced this and written or generated an article on the Internet which made front-page HN. Nor is it the one hundred thousandth time this someone has experienced this and not written or generated an article, or had the article not reach front-page HN. At least this person is suing Google for it. Under EU law, they might actually win. But why is the article AI-written? That is not helping your case.

Toynbeeidea

>That day I sent six complaints about Anthropic, the maker of Claude, to 107 recipients. So a spammer spammed and got his just deserts. Good.

applfanboysbgon

I'm not saying Google doesn't have too much power, but I'm also not saying it isn't hilarious to see someone let an OpenClaw instance go wild on their main e-mail account and rightfully get banned for spam.

nickelpro

This is a short thesis saying you shouldn't use a personal email account for marketing, ad, or press campaigns. Doing so places that personal email account at risk of closure.

egorfine

> The decision to close the account is made by the system, not the human Someone from Apple here once told that they close millions of accounts daily . How many accounts does Google close? It's unfeasible to expect any company to do a human review at this scale. Not that I like it, but that's the way it is.

sajithdilshan

So the author actually sent more than 100 automated emails about how Anthropic wronged him to some people and that’s actually spam. He already disputed the payments for Anthropic with his bank and got the money, so I have no idea why he spammed other people with his problems. Also, he is adamant that re-instating his gmail account is like his birth right and at the same time has a lot of examples of how different countries fined Google/Alphabet and saying it’s evil, which is irrelevant to his spamming issue.

ShadowOfThePit

This is exceessively verbose, repetitive and ai-written (translated?). I got lost half-way through because it keeps going on random, barely-related tangents. - What do I care about your problems with Anthropic? It's not even a good comparison because apparently the bank did everything. - What does it matter who owns how many shares of Google in Poland, or who used to be in charge of it? What does it matter that she apparently is in the "Forbes 50 after 50 list", and that she left "voluntarily and with honours"?? - Why randomly insult Ireland? " (...) and the Irish company replies at an Irish company’s pace, if at all. " As if going at a snail's pace was a problem of being Irish, and not a global conglomerate. - Why describe in intricate detail how European laws are (going to be) implemented in Poland? And how the President can (and did) veto their implementation?? Having skimmed the last half of the post, I ultimately see this as fundamentally righteous, but also obsessive and borderline autistic crusade against big corpo. Besides, sending 100 mails in four minutes is extreme. 99 media addresses? I doubt I could even find that many media organizations that care about someone getting their Google account blocked!