Gemini Live ban wipes family accounts

This reads like a policy enforcement win that became a trust failure. Gemini Live can be following child-safety rules correctly and still lose users if the punishment is too broad, the appeal path is opaque, and unrelated accounts get caught in the blast radius.

• –Google’s published Gemini policy explicitly forbids sexual content and child-safety violations, so a ban rationale is not surprising
• –The real damage is collateral: the poster says mail, Drive, and business records were tied to the same Google ecosystem
• –Family-linked devices and shared accounts turn one bad incident into a platform-wide outage for innocent users
• –If this report is accurate, Google needs better account isolation, clearer device vs. account enforcement, and faster human review for appeals
• –Treat the Reddit post as anecdotal until Google comments, but the underlying UX risk is real for any AI product with household-level account sharing