Gregory's ServerToday in The Struggle Of Existing As A Vagina Museum In The Digital World: Google have flagged a learning resource as "sexually explicit". As a small charity, we use Google Drive for many tasks, including hosting resources, as it's an affordable solution.
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@CStamp @vagina_museum iirc they do scan zips, unless they're really large. (also that's of little use when you need to embed it in a website)  @sys64738 @vagina_museum Thanks. Well, I hope you're able to talk to them and get a vagina exemption. I remember Dr. Jen Gunter and her publisher having a lot of problems promoting her Vagina Bible. Twitter allows penis, but vagina is a banning offence, or was at the time.  For what it's worth nextcloud is available in both self hosted and cloud hosted versions and can do a lot of what google drive & docs can do. Here's the image in question, which Google thinks is sexually explicit. It's the panel from a comic about the "discovery" of the clitoris by Anita Zaramella!  We don't know whether Google has taken to using some utterly useless automated tools to detect "sexually explicit" content, or the image was maliciously reported - these are both struggles that we've had in the past. And once again, we wearily have to sigh "oh come ON" and request a manual review. @vagina_museum that beard, and those sunglasses, together with that Italian family name, is smth utterly pornographic… If your interest is piqued and you'd like to read the rest of the comic, you can find the other three pages over in our resources section, because Google hasn't taken *those* down. https://www.vaginamuseum.co.uk/learning/resources @vagina_museum I once posted a link to a Guardian article on an American weight loss site and it was reported and deleted because there was a photo - taken from the side - of a naked woman in the article. I was very irritated by this. @vagina_museum you could also be more explicit and trustworthy than this.  Mansplaining to the vagina museum in a thread about censorship of the clitoris. Achievement get! Blocked!   @vagina_museum I wonder whether $goog is upset about the text in the left frame more than the anatomy in the right frames.  @vagina_museum Now I'm half wondering how much you need to Barbie Doll Anatomy it to have it not be flagged, because that's...not very distinctively the thing they're flagging. Like, this is probably immature of me, but I can't help thinking they'd flag a Magatama from Ace Attorney ( https://aceattorney.fandom.com/wiki/Magatama ) placed against skin tone. (Also, I thought Colombo was Columbus, and had to double take on the panel.) @vagina_museum I mean, Google funds anti-abortion lawmakers, so this isn't surprising to me. Hopefully this is corrected, but honestly I don't trust them either way. @vagina_museum I suggest you avoid Google entirely. Their services are replaceable at similar (sometimes no) cost by other providers. Regarding a replacement for Google Drive, have a look at this list: @vagina_museum
I guess that depends on your definition of 'affordable'. Think you could find someone to donate you a nextcloud instance?  @vagina_museum Hey, would you accept help with migrating off of Google to some servers run by activist volunteers? E.g., from There are a lot of collectives who'd probably be willing to help <3  @vagina_museum leave google drive and make your own server. Find a way more trustworthy file sharing service if necessary.  @vagina_museum We should point out this is partly Congress's fault, not exclusively Google's. While Google was censorious and anti-sex before, they went into overdrive due after the Senate passed FOSTA/SESTA in 2018. That's when sex workers started losing their content on Google Drive. https://www.engadget.com/2019-01-31-sex-censorship-killed-internet-fosta-sesta.html  @vagina_museum we should really set you up a nextcloud instance. I just won't be able to guarrantee you a long running one.  @vagina_museum #AllGAFAMsAreEvil and it's sad to see that you got hit by them...  @vagina_museum Leave Google. There are several European options that won't report you to authorities for sending a photo of your sick child to the doctor (yes, this happened). @protonmail (Swiss) and @ViOffice (German) are two options I can think of right now but there are many more.  @AimeeMaroux @vagina_museum |
@vagina_museum Could you zip files before uploading to help bypass this?