RE: https://mastodon.social/@adamndsmith/116328215860941572

This is a perfect demonstration of two different issues that @lauren talks about.

First, the post itself:

A simple, everyday action that predictably occurs in the real world, because #people are messy and imperfect and make mistakes and bad decisions. A 14-year-old boy does something stupid related to hormones: boy, that's never happened before! Why would we expect that?

Google's #algorithms detect it as CSAM or similar - you can argue this is a false detection or not. Predictable and predicted.

#Google immediately locks not just the account that the kid was using, but every other account that uses the same device. Call it what you will - collateral damage. The whole family loses #access to everything - photos, business stuff, website, email, and more. Again, #predictable and #predicted.

The users find themselves trying to #appeal to recover their access, and Google's systems make it impossible. You can't contact a human. There is no #escalation from the machine's judgment. If you don't know someone inside Google and can't get your story on the front pages, you're just #boned. Lauren *rails* against this dereliction by Google, demonstrated time and time again.

Then, the thread of replies is chock-full of presumably-technophile people laughing at the #victims and saying "You had backups, right? Ahahaha" and "Why would you give all that info to Google, stupid?" and similar. Near- #sociopathic lack of #concern for others. Lauren's right here, too.

We must do better.

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#trump

Senile #dementia on top of lifelong #sociopathic lunacy.
Never passed from childhood bullying into adulthood.

Failed fraudulent academic.
Failed businessman
Autocratic manager

Convicted felon
Insurrectionist
Election fraudster

Compromised by #Moscow
putin's puppet

Who voted for this madman?

#PennedPossibilities 723 — Intelligence: Is your antagonist self-taught, or did they acquire most of their knowledge in school?

#plutocracy #oligarchy #billionaires - the antagonists in "A New Faith" - have supposedly acquired their knowledge in school. Now I can't imagine where in schools is being #selfish #cruel #sociopathic #psychopathic etc. taught.
But here we are. So this seems to be a "despite the system" issue instead of the "because of the system."

The goals of today's #sociopathic #Republican Party are clear

To rule by decree, break treaties, and end democracy, because treaties and democracy do not matter

To terrorize and inflict harm upon anyone who doesn't agree with their bigoted, ignorant, asinine, delusional viewpoints

To enrich themselves and their pals at any expense, with no regard for consequences

The #GOP is destroying everything in their path