[David]

there is a lot of talk about fraudulent DMCA complaints on Google, a few years ago it was big news when Google sued some DMCA fraudsters who removed thousands of pages with fake DMCA.

https://www.pcmag.com/news/fraudsters-abuse-googles-copyright-takedowns-to-target-117000-urls

https://medium.com/occrp-unreported/fighting-the-fakers-a-guide-to-dealing-with-bogus-copyright-complaints-on-google-fbcbf24d40a6

https://mashable.com/article/google-fake-dmca-takedown-requests

but the other categories of takedown complaints can be even worse because the GSC will not notify you in those case, like “revenge porn”

[John]

Which removal form are you talking about?

[Grace]

Which removal form are you talking about?

there are several now, it’s pretty confusing. some of the links are broken too, seems like Google is always changing them. but I mostly mean this one:

https://support.google.com/legal/troubleshooter/1114905?hl=en

[Helen]

Select the Google product where the content you are reporting appears

after you choose Google Search it will ask

Select the reason you wish to report content
Policy (Non-legal) Reasons to Report Content
Relating to Google content and product policies, such as spam or phishing
Legal Reasons to Report Content
Relating to country/region-specific laws, such as privacy or intellectual property laws

this is where all the fraud begins. 99% of these requests have no legal basis, neither locally or in the USA either, so they choose “policy violation” and for weeks or months on end just keep cycling through the various takedown categories, which temporarily pushes your content down in the rankings, esp. for newer sites or low DA domains

[Diane]

all the prosecutors are too busy trying to persecute their political enemies lol

no time to go after online fraudsters…

[Joan]

3 options

Select the reason you wish to report content
Malware: Report software or mobile applications specifically designed to harm a computer, a mobile device, the software it’s running, or its users
Phishing: Report content that is designed to look like a trustworthy entity or site in order to acquire sensitive information
Spam: Report content that is sent in bulk and is unsolicited, inappropriate, or irrelevant

6 more options

Select the reason you wish to report content
Doxxing: Report content in which your contact information is present and there is the presence of explicit or implicit threats, or explicit or implicit calls to action for others to harm or harass
Personal identifiable information: Report content that contains personal identifiable information (for example, credit card or bank account numbers, confidential login credentials, etc.)
Images of minors: Report images of anyone below the age of 18
Non-consensual explicit imagery: Report intimate or explicit images and videos that were created or shared without your consent
Involuntary fake pornography: Report content that is fake or falsely depicts an individual as nude or in a sexually explicit situation
Irrelevant pornography: Report pornographic content that appears in search results for an individual’s name even though they have no connection with pornography

2 more options

Select the reason you wish to report content
Child sexual abuse material: Report images or videos involving a child under 18 engaging in sexually explicit behavior
Exploitative removal practices: Remove content about you on sites with exploitative removal practices from Google

Google just gives criminals and grifters all kinds of easy options to target journalists and bloggers and social media users who are exposing online scams!

[Kimberly]

tl;dr Google is now judge and jury of the planet

[Pamela]

Yup it’s a massive problem for free speech, and exposing scammers online or just your good old fashioned journalism —

btw criminals are now also abusing GDPR and Google’s new “personal info removal” to try and censor their criminal history from serps, often worse than above tactics

[Randy]

This is exactly what Thai Visa Centre is doing against SlickStack.io fyi:

WARNING: Thai Visa Centre is an illegal bribery ring

^^Trying to delete posts like this from SERPs.

[Bryan]

lol Thai Visa Centre made it into many threads…

[Helen]

btw criminals are now also abusing GDPR and Google’s new “personal info removal” to try and censor their criminal history from serps, often worse than above tactics

These

https://reportcontent.google.com/forms/rtbf

https://support.google.com/websearch/contact/content_removal_form?hl=en

[Christina]

Google is no longer indexing many blog posts anymore!?

[Barbara]

Thai Visa Centre reviews on Google Maps are mostly fake!

[Anna]

There’s a s**t load of pajeets on Upwork offering these illegal takedown services btw and Upwork does not seem to care about it

[Justin]

DigitalOcean leftist Roxana E. trying to censor criticism of herself

[Linda]

Thai Visa Centre submitting fraudulent “takedowns” against SlickStack

[Megan]

Why doesn’t Google require only licensed lawyers can submit such complaints? better yet, why the hell is Google in charge of this suddenly instead of the U.S. court system?

[Victoria]

They need to do this again:

https://blog.google/outreach-initiatives/public-policy/taking-legal-action-to-protect-users-of-ai-and-small-businesses/

But for the non-DMCA fraud going on.

[Christian]

Gregg Re threatens Reddit, Quora, Trustpilot to censor SERPs

[Kelly]

Vultr just disabled my website due to GDPR complaint

[Author]

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