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Google Play Store Developer Account Termination #30

Open nelsonic opened 5 years ago

nelsonic commented 5 years ago

TIL: Google’s (“AI”) Decision making doesn’t care about your story. https://blog.usejournal.com/google-wrongly-terminated-our-new-business-via-our-google-play-developer-account-5f5b7b742542 Via: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19124324

iteles commented 5 years ago

Whoa, this is terrible!

nelsonic commented 5 years ago

@iteles yeah, really lame that rather than celebrating the launch of their App, 🎉> 😞 they had to spend a month trying to reason with the Google Machine. 🤖 Thankfully the App that we are building does not need to be in the Play Store. 📱 (and we would never "outsource" the dev work to the lowest bidder on "UpWork" ...) 🙄 But the fact that Google has no process for listening to legitimate claims of unfair termination, makes me worried for the future of AI/Automation ... If Google (or any other Monopolistic company) becomes "The Law" (Judge, Jury & Executioner) The world is in for a really bad time. Not just "App Store" termination, but real consequences!

Technology/platform independence and breaking free from vendor lock-in is essential! As much as Google is "useful" now, (in)justice should not be decided by any company.