Google canceled a man's account on seeing he sent a doctor photos of his baby son' injured genitals.

Despite the publicity, Google has not reinstated his account.

This highlights well-known dangers of automated detection of possible child sexual abuse images. Beyond that, it also shows that having humans involved in making the decision is not guaranteed to correct an erroneous automated detection.

Furthermore, it shows the danger of having various different digital services provided by a single company, or by companies that have agreed to work together to kick "offenders" off the services of all of them.

Child sexual abuse is a real problem, but people accused of doing that are entitled to have a trial before they are punished. We cannot allow online disservices to implement unofficial punishment without trial.

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Bernie Sanders comments on today's alignment of unions with progressives, and other political issues.