This is what happens when laws force even small companies to shoot first and ask questions later.

It is what happens when tech giants like Google are forced to automate tasks due to the sheer volume of content that needs to be screened for a list of infractions that are almost impossible to validate without human intervention.

I can’t fault GSW for reaching for automated tools, because protecting copyright&trademark requires more resources than they could possibly afford.

It sucks that tech giants like Google can be pretty aggressive when handing out bans and strikes.
It is ridiculously easy for a hostile *beep* to take out a channel with invalid claims as a result of how Google operates.

It is abso-flockin-lutely stupid that content creators don’t even get a chance to fix anything before the almighty banhammer activates.

At least she got lucky that GSW responded quickly enough so damage could be minimized.

There is literally nothing good that has come from this sort of thing.

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@collins

this wasn’t a company releasing an iPhone clone.
It was a company releasing a ‘dingleberry phone’ … it was practically impossible for the consumer to even be aware that the name was an existing trademark from a competitor.

It kind of reminds me of how the RPG ‘Aeon'(*) by Whitewolf had to be rebranded to Trinity because MTV decided it owned the Aeon trademark as a result of some animated cartoon it had made decades ago.

If anyone had posted a review of ‘Aeon’ they would have struck by the same impossible to dodge banhammer that was used by GSW

(*) trademark issue appears to have been resolved as the new book has been labelled “Trinity Continuum Aeon”