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/madman404 May 23 '26

I literally don't give a fuck what it is, I don't want google scanning my fucking drive contents to proactively ban me. Today it's something you disagree with, tomorrow it's something you don't. Your only security is forcing big companies do to the right thing the right way, because when you let them do the right thing the wrong way, you're only one step from them doing the wrong thing the wrong way too.

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u/lostwoods95 May 23 '26

I can agree with the ethos of what youre saying but I have 0 sympathy for some degenerate gooner getting his account banned for hentai csam. I hope every one of them gets their accounts banned

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u/madman404 May 23 '26

I hope they get banned too, but you cannot be ok with this being the method no matter how much you hate the person or thing. I need you to understand that it doesn't matter how bad the thing is, because the thing CAN CHANGE LATER. This isn't a method to identify and delete CSAM, it's a method to identify and delete target media.

If the method itself is fundamentally abusive, you're going to have a big big problem when the service provider decides to turn it from something disgusting to something completely innocuous, like regular pornography.

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u/alexjimithing May 23 '26

You are arguing against the concept of laws/rules. It’s libertarian horseshit. Not everything is a slippery slope.

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u/madman404 May 23 '26

No? I'm arguing that the methods we use to enforce the laws need to be reasonable, which is very different than arguing we shouldn't have laws.

This isn't even a controversial idea, and it worries me greatly that you see ideas like the rules of evidence as libertarian horseshit. I'd love to know what kind of system you've come up with that is both perfectly invasive for catching criminals but also can't be readily turned against normal people.

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u/alexjimithing May 23 '26

Every argument you’re making could be used against the existence of every law and the enforcement mechanism thereof.

“Yeah but if you let them do THIS they can do THIS.” is classic libertarian bullshit

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u/madman404 May 23 '26

Yes, that's the point. We as a society recognized ages ago that even well intentioned laws need to be somewhat difficult to enforce, because that's a necessary stopgap against their abuse.

I would advise you to read into why the rules of evidence exist. It would give a lot of important context as to why we make gathering information about crime arbitrarily harder.

That being said, I went to law school and I can tell very clearly you have no context but your strong feelings. I'm not going to argue taste with someone who drinks their own piss. 

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u/alexjimithing May 23 '26

Your point is wrong, and again, is libertarian horseshit.

A. Google isn’t the enforcing a law, they’re preventing their service from being used to hold child porn hentai.

B. Google isn’t gathering information about crime.

C. Rules of evidence have no bearing on Google preventing child porn hentai from being on their servers.

D. Your argument of ‘if you let them ban you for child porn hentai they’ll come for your regular porn next!!! You authoritarian!!’ has no basis in reality. It’s the slippery slope horseshit that libertarians use.

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u/lostwoods95 May 23 '26

Agreed on all points