Google disabled my husband's account
It&#x27;s incredibly Kafka-eqsue that you get banned for a supposed violation that you&#x27;re supposed to appeal, but you don&#x27;t know what you&#x27;re being accused of doing.<p>This is exacerbated by the fact that 9 out of 10 times a story like this appears it&#x27;s an algorithm gone rogue which its billion-dollar shepherd assumes is infallible.<p>The remaining 1 time it&#x27;s because someone knows how to abuse reporting systems to get someone locked out on purpose.<p>The only reason these tech companies managed to get so big is because they&#x27;ll cheat at anything that requires human scale. Support, moderation, taking responsibility for the content they host. They somehow managed to skirt on that just as the web was transitioning from a wild west to a somewhat ingrained, regulated place and the world is worse off for it.<p>Because they skirted on all this, they are now somehow the world&#x27;s gatekeepers on modern communications. If you don&#x27;t play ball with them, you&#x27;re cut off from almost everyone. Their recklessness and callousness ironically put them in the position to rule over the rest.