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Should a false positive from the YouTube anti-spam algorithm accidentally temp-ban someone from commenting on YouTube for a week, or should it permanently and irrevocably destroy their online presence, possibly preventing them from logging into anything online: email, banking, government services, paying their mortgage? Because the whole problem is that we're in the universe where the latter happens.


I see now how it sounds that way but I'm not making excuses. It was to describe the puzzle without all the emotional luggage. You need a system that gets it wrong, corrects it self then gets the correction wrong with infinite recursion.

Instant judgement shooting from the hip without dialog or appeal is the dumbest way of doing things. Google isn't even trying.




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