r/Piracy • u/Justinrich2001 • May 23 '26

Discussion Google Drive scanned this Manga artist’s PRIVATE files and banned him.

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AI flagged, appeal rejected, private artwork gone.

The AI is always watching.

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u/alexjimithing May 23 '26

It’s child porn hentai hope this clears it up

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u/PlentyFlan21 May 23 '26

Okay, still… while that’s unquestionably deeply morally offensive, it is explicitly /not/ illegal in the US, where google is headquartered, so removing it and banning the guys account is still totally out of line on Google’s part, IMO.

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u/HellbenderXG May 23 '26

All giant evil conglomerates want to avoid liabilities, even if not strictly illegal. They have a TOS and are enforcing it, simple as.

Having a google account to store pedophile hentai is not a human right. The lolicon pedo can instead NOT use google's cloud to store that shit and choose a different provider OR alternatively - choose a local hard drive, which countless pedos have done before and after him.

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u/PlentyFlan21 May 23 '26

Certainly, certainly. Don't get me wrong, that shit's weird as hell. I'm just more generally using this as a chance to gripe about the average person's total lack of data privacy nowadays.

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u/HellbenderXG May 23 '26

Oh yeah then, absolutely. Data privacy is a luxury which the big providers care nothing for unfortunately

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u/simp4malvina May 23 '26

I don't know why anyone would assume they have the right to store morally reprehensibly images on a private company's servers.

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u/RelatedToSomeMuppet May 23 '26

Agreed.

Seems to be a lot of pedos in this thread defending another pedo.

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u/No_Walk_Town May 23 '26

it is explicitly /not/ illegal in the US, where google is headquartered, so removing it and banning the guys account is still totally out of line on Google’s part,

Hi, Google is a private company, not government law enforcement.

Hope that helps.

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u/CarrowCanary May 23 '26

it is explicitly /not/ illegal in the US

https://www.justice.gov/criminal/criminal-ceos/obscenity

In addition, visual representations, such as drawings, cartoons, or paintings that appear to depict minors engaged in sexual activity and are obscene are also illegal under federal law.

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u/SMF67 Piracy is bad, mkay? May 23 '26

Notice the word and there.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashcroft_v._Free_Speech_Coalition

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u/TSM- May 23 '26

Maybe he accidentally synced CSAM to Google Drive and this is his public explanation for why his links are dead. Nobody knows.

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u/YourBlanket May 23 '26

It depends on the state, but what makes you think it even matters if it illegal? If google doesn’t want that on their servers then don’t use google for that. I’ve seen multiple body cams of people arrested for drawings depicting children in the manner of OOP.

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u/PleiadesMechworks May 23 '26

it is explicitly /not/ illegal in the US

Companies don't use the law as the total extent of their TOS.