[aha] Killed by Google - Ucciso da Google
fabrizio batuello
cinzio17 at tiscali.it
Sat Jun 6 10:11:02 CEST 2009
Qualcuno può tradurre!
Mi piacerebbe conoscere le motivazioni.
Grazie
Il giorno 05/giu/09, alle ore 20:25, domenico quaranta ha scritto:
>
> Con la presente intendo informarti che Google ha disabilitato, con
> iniziativa unilaterale, il mio Account Google. Il che significa:
>
> - che l'email quaranta.domenico at gmail.com non è più attiva. Se
> desideri contattarmi, ti prego di scrivere a qrndnc at yahoo.it o
> dom at domenicoquaranta.net. Se mi hai scritto nelle ultime ore
> all'indirizzo Gmail, per favore girami la mail su questi indirizzi;
> - che i blog http://domenico-quaranta.blogspot.com/ e http://
> spawnofthesurreal.blogspot.com/, seppure ancora accessibili, non
> saranno più aggiornati e non sono più di mia proprietà;
> - che le dispense e i documenti che ho caricato su Google
> Documents, seppure ancora accessibili, non saranno più aggiornati e
> non sono più di mia proprietà;
> - che i miei canali Picasa (http://picasaweb.google.it/
> quaranta.domenico/) e Youtube (http://www.youtube.com/user/
> domenicoquaranta) non saranno più aggiornati e non sono più di mia
> proprietà.
>
> Questa notte sono stato ucciso da Google. Se vuoi sapere perché e
> capire se potrebbe succedere a te, continua a leggere.
>
> --
>
> With this email I'd like to inform you that Google disabled my
> Google Account. This means:
>
> - that the email address quaranta.domenico at gmail.com is no longer
> active. If you want to contact me, please use qrndnc at yahoo.it or
> dom at domenicoquaranta.net. If you wrote me in the last few hours,
> please send your message to these last addresses.
> - that the blogs http://domenico-quaranta.blogspot.com/ and http://
> spawnofthesurreal.blogspot.com/, while still available, won't be
> updated and no longer belong to me;
> - that my documents, presentations and teaching material on Google
> Documents, while still available, won't be updated and no longer
> belong to me;
> - that my Picasa (http://picasaweb.google.it/quaranta.domenico/)
> and Youtube channels (http://www.youtube.com/user/domenicoquaranta)
> won't be updated and no longer belong to me.
>
> This night I've been killed by Google. If you want to know more and
> understand if you'll be the next, go on reading.
>
> ---------------------------------------------------
>
> *This night I've been killed by Google*
> Domenico Quaranta
>
> This night I've been killed by Google. When I woke up, I tried to
> enter my Google Account as usual, but what I got was only a short
> message:
>
> «Sorry, your account has been disabled.»
>
> “This fucking password!”, I thought, and I retyped it. Same
> message. At the end of it there was a question mark with a link. I
> clicked on it, and this is what I read:
>
> «If you've been redirected to this page from the sign in page, it
> means that access to your Google Account has been disabled.
>
> In most cases, accounts are disabled because of a perceived
> violation of either the Google Terms of Service or product-specific
> Terms of Service.
>
> Google reserves the right to:
>
> * Suspend a Google Account from using a particular product or the
> entire Google Accounts system if the Terms of Service or product-
> specific policies are violated.
> * Terminate your account at any time, for any reason, with or
> without notice.
>
> If your Google Account has been disabled, please review the
> relevant Terms of Service before attempting to create another
> account. For guidelines on a specific Google product, please visit
> the product homepage for a link to its Terms of Service.
>
> If you believe your account has been disabled in error, please
> contact us so that we can assist you.»
>
> “Terminate your account at any time, for any reason, with or
> without notice”? Wow! If God exists, probably he is more democratic
> than Google. But, well, of course it's a mistake. So, let's fill
> the form.
>
> I did it, and this is what I got:
>
> «Thanks for contacting our Google Accounts team. Please note that
> we'll only reply if we have additional information to share about
> your disabled account.»
>
> I take a cigarette. “Hope is a good breakfast but a bad supper”, I
> think. Tons of emails, two blogs, about one hundred images, videos,
> documents, web pages, presentations, two years of work lost for...
> what? Because I believed in a fallible God.
>
> I don't believe in God, actually. That's why I always have to
> understand what happens to my life. So, I start making some
> research. Google invites you to put your whole hard disk online. If
> you have a Google account, you can check your email, but you can
> also run one or more blogs. Picasa lets you share your pictures,
> and since Google bought Youtube, you can create and access a
> Youtube channel with the same username and password. Google
> Documents is a kind of Microsoft Office. You can create and share
> word documents, spreadsheets, Power Point presentations, databases.
> It's far but easy to fascinate me, but if I find something useful,
> I use it. So, I run two blogs, I have a Picasa account, a Youtube
> channel, and several documents online – most of them being material
> I use for teaching, and that I share with my students. All under
> the same Google Account.
>
> So, let's check if everything is working. My email doesn't work
> anymore. R.I.P. My blogs are still online, but I don't have the
> right to edit, delete or update them anymore. Actually, I'm not the
> owner of these sites anymore. They are still there, but they aren't
> mine – they belong to Google. I realize right now that they always
> did. As for my Youtube videos and my documents, the same as above:
> only Google can decide if my students can go on studying what I
> teach. Finally, I look for my Picasa channel: it's gone.
>
> “You asshole!”, you may say. “You are boring us with your fucking
> story, and it ends up that you uploaded some sex images or
> copyrighted material.” I didn't. What I put on my Picasa account
> are just my photos: some holiday pictures (as private albums,
> accessible only to me – and Google of course) and some pics related
> to the exhibitions I organized up to now (as public albums). I go
> through the terms of agreement about one hundred times, and what I
> understand is that I didn't violate any rule. Maybe the following one?
>
> «4.5 You acknowledge and agree that while Google may not currently
> have set a fixed upper limit on the number of transmissions you may
> send or receive through the Services or on the amount of storage
> space used for the provision of any Service, such fixed upper
> limits may be set by Google at any time, at Google’s discretion.»
>
> I don't know how many megabytes I used – unlike for Flickr, there
> were no upper limits for Picasa till yesterday. Maybe I used too
> much disk space and they decided to kick me out?
>
> I don't know. Probably, I'll never know. Since this morning, I
> wrote about 10 emails to Google, but I got no answer. I can just
> look back to my dead account and wonder: is it dead because God
> decided to kill it or because it violated some stupid rule?
>
> Of course, I will migrate on other platforms. I'll do even if my
> Google Account comes back from hell. Nothing is really lost,
> besides my time. But don't forget: if it happened to me, it can
> happen to anybody, at any time, everywhere. Everything is there, in
> the contract you signed with God – or it was the Devil?:
>
> «4.3 As part of this continuing innovation, you acknowledge and
> agree that Google may stop (permanently or temporarily) providing
> the Services (or any features within the Services) to you or to
> users generally at Google’s sole discretion, without prior notice
> to you.
>
> 4.4 You acknowledge and agree that if Google disables access to
> your account, you may be prevented from accessing the Services,
> your account details or any files or other content which is
> contained in your account.»
>
>
> ---
>
> Domenico Quaranta
>
> mob. +39 340 2392478
> email. dom at domenicoquaranta.net
> home. vicolo San Giorgio 18 - 25122 brescia (BS)
> web. http://www.domenicoquaranta.net/
>
> "The world we actually have does not meet my standards". Philip K.
> Dick
>
>
>
>
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