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There's virtually no chance that the automated system that banned him knew the account belonged to someone with whom Stadia was doing business. Even if we assume there's a list of high profile people/accounts not to automatically disable, I can't see him being on it.

>>hn_go_+(OP)
He is developer of Terraria including their official Youtube has been suspended. What does a guy have to do to become a true Scotsman? Fall acy?

>>hn_go_+(OP)
I think the point is that he has direct business with Google and yet _even he_ can't get his account unbanned.

If someone in that position is screwed, an average joe is most definitely screwed.

>>hn_go_+(OP)
It's possible to have a system that marks high profile accounts that shouldn't have automated actions applied ... that it appears Google doesn't have something like this is worrying.

>>philjo+g2
Then again, if all high profile accounts were exempt from being auto banned then there would be even less chance of problems being brought to light.

>>Zephyr+y1
Notably, it also happened to an employee's husband:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24791357

>>berdar+c4
I think I'm going to spend the next few days working on a backup strategy for all my google related data and accounts...

>>Zephyr+b5
I would start with takeout.google.com and put that in cold storage in a good cloud provider (obviously not google cloud).

>>speedg+a8
Good luck with that. My Takeout export was supposed to start three days ago.

>>speedg+a8
Already downloading my takeout export as I write this comment :). Will probably use backblaze for backup cloud storage of stuff.

>>philjo+g2
they then become high profile targets for takeovers, and can run amok for too long before being disabled.

>>speedg+a8
Thanks; I've initiated that process on your advice. Is the data in a reasonable format and not just something you can re-import into a replacement google account?