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> Sometimes it was "dangerous and derogatory content." Sometimes it was "shocking content."

So Google turned the filter sensitivity up to 11 just now huh? I don't get why techdirt insists that that is not about ideology.

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My hunch on this was that there probably was a misconfiguration with whatever service they're using to send out emails. If they don't have the sending domain whitelisted with whatever service they're using, it can look super fishy (or phishy!). I'd be really, really surprised to find out that Google's automated AdSense ad quality tools are in any way tied to their email quality tools.

Is there something ideological about phishing protections?

Oh I missed that the first time around. That changes things. Especially given that phishing claims started same time as everything else. Sounds like someone is mass-report attacking them or something then.

Or there were two models, the output of one which is an input to another.

Normally this would be a bad idea, but lots of people do it.

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