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by zokier 3010 days ago
The list here:

https://support.google.com/docs/answer/148505?hl=en

has 13 items on it. Not exactly unreasonably long list to check, especially if you are in the porn industry where you should be aware that there are plenty of restrictions (justified or not) around porn. If you didn't happen to be aware of that, consider this a lesson learned the hard way.
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smnrchrds 3010 days ago
Do you see them in this format when you sign up for Google Drive, or do you simply see one of those checkboxes that say "I have read and agree to Terms and Conditions," with a link to a huge wall of text of legalese?

I have been using Google Drive for many years and I was never aware of these restrictions. I wonder how many Drive users were aware before seeing this article. If it is less than 50% (and I would be surprised if it isn't) it is Google's fault not individual users.

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zokier 3010 days ago
> If it is less than 50% (and I would be surprised if it isn't) it is Google's fault not individual users.

This misses the second point of my parent comment; if you are in the porn industry, you should know that plenty of services do not want your business, and as such be far more diligent than the average joe in checking ToS for the services you are building your business on.

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ewindisch 3010 days ago
Systematic oppression makes ignoring ToS the default. Businesses choose not to cater to sex workers and such workers find themselves in the situation where there's no option but to ignore the ToS. You find that when services you take for granted aren't available, things get... harder. So you do what everyone else does to the best of your ability even if you are an "undesirable" that has been asked to stay outside the group, even when that's illegal. So yeah, sex workers are going to do what they need to do to survive and make ends meet, the terms of service for websites is the very least of their concerns when they don't know if they'll make rent this month.
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jessaustin 3010 days ago
Were you "aware" that two categories have been added since October? Reading the explanations, "terrorist content" seems likely to be "depictions of everyday life in poor Muslim areas". As for "public streaming", that seems to be "more downloads than we like". Regardless of what these things actually mean, there's no way to know how how much time elapsed between the additions to the document and the deletion of material.
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