I am angry. I attempted to send an email to Jacky earlier, which contained an attachment, and some brief text. It bounced back twice, and I was really confused until I got an auto-generated email from Google.

Apparently my email had been flagged as spam. Apparently, even though it was only sent to one person, it was flagged as spam.

I am not free to express myself in an email to one friend, because sexual content is censored as SPAM.

(By sexual content, I mean the sentence “and now I have a semi-permanent boner”)

I am not happy about this. I don’t mind that Google protects people from bulk mail outs. They provide instructions for how to ensure you can still send bulk mail.
However, I should be able to write whatever I want in an email to one person. What right has google to censor my emails?

I brought this up with my colleagues, and they seem to think that I should avoid sending emails with inappropriate content. The thing is though, it wasn’t inappropriate. The sender, the reciever, and the context means that it was perfectly acceptable to send that email.

Who is GOOGLE to decide?

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