[dewey]

> Because of a keyword monitor picked up by their auto-moderation bot

Can you elaborate on that? What do they monitor with the moderation bot?

[purerandomness]

The point is that anyone could fall into that category when laws change.

Imagine you're running a cosplay community, and all of a sudden all your content is being deleted because the SESTA/FOSTA bill gets passed in a country where your "cloud" happens to reside in: https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/18/03/25/0614209/sex-wor...

[harryh]

"because of the grey area of our tech"

"told us straight out that it would and we should move"

Sounds shady. I bet this would make more sense if OP explained what his company actually does.

[golfer]

Exactly -- there is a lot the OP isn't telling us. Maybe Google was right to shut them down.

[__david__]

I'd rather my cloud provider err on the permissive side. Preemptively shutting suspicious things down without an external complaint seems a bit much…

[justinclift]

Well, there are all kinds of grey area stuff. One fairly obvious example is various security services, which have a wide variety.

Not everything is outright "likely to get banned" (eg pron things). ;)

[nodesocket]

Yup, agree. OP was probably doing something against the terms. Care to provide details?

[path411]

Well, "grey" can mean a lot of things when you are talking about the same company that moderates Youtube.

[pests]

I know they specifically ban cryptocurrency mining on their free credit / tier. Even called out on their public product pages.

I assumed they could tell that via CPU usage with they already monitor for quotas.

[asah]

+1 - I'm curious as well.