So how many channels get removed for no reason each week for people who don't have the benefit of being a respected audio developer whom Peter Kirn will fight for?
Anon for obv reasons. They were flagged for "spam and deceptive practices" - this isn't always for content, it can totally be based on behavior of associated accounts along with other web activity. Trying not to tar a whole group of people with the same brush, but I'm afraid most spam and deception online have certain common attributes. These are easily detected and actual false positives are rarer than you'd think. This person is lucky media got involved.
> A reporter from Ars Technica, after reading the article by @pkirn.bsky.social, was able to reach out to us and then directly contact a Google employee that could <i>accelerate our appeal to be looked into</i>.<p>Or the reporter was able to contact someone that could get the issue looked into at all, more like. You don't "accelerate" something that was never going to happen in the first place.<p>Also, this is a good time to remember that Google occasionally doubles down when they cause serious harm to individual users, even after being contacted by the media. Google invaded the privacy of numerous parents sharing sensitive medical pictures of their children with doctors, took away access to their entire digital lives including Gmail, called the cops, and effectively called them criminals after being contacted by the New York Times. Absolutely disgusting behavior that Google hasn't taken accountability for to this very day.<p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32538805">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32538805</a>