No idea why Google Map banned “rape” or “sexually assault”

Stasy Hsieh
2 min readDec 4, 2023

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I haven’t read the policy, but I just wrote my very real experience on the Google Map of Ministre des Armée in Paris. Because I was raped by a French classmate who now works there, with no contact of his, my letter wouldn’t go through the “privacy protection” in German university system.

The idea behind is just to let him know, hey dudd, please be respectful to the others. I belittle geniuses like you who thinks of taking advantages of the others all the time. Stop it. Especially “RAPING SOMEONE.”

As I turned 30, I realized that I still got very very outrageous about this: what if in the future, I become a mother, and I need to tell my children to be brave and speak up for themselves. And they ended up in a censorship-environment?

That is what Google, Academia, Industry, Society is doing.

So this is the letter:

Dear IPQ Secretary,

This is Tsai-Hsuan Hsieh, a student who took Prof. Sebastian Randel’s Optical telecommunication in 2017 Fall Semester.

I gained so much help from the professor, tutors and secretary. Thank you.

For the request of my father and myself, please do transfer the following letter to a French exchange student from Grenoble University whose Vorname is “Aurélien”.( While I understand that the contact information may no longer be valid, and there might be challenges given the time that has passed since our graduation, I would appreciate any help you could provide.)

The content might be brutal, and if you don’t feel comfortable, you could imagine how traumatizing that was for a 24-year-old who was abroad alone.

“Hi Aurélien,

I am Stasy, the Taiwanese classmate who asked for your contact in the optical telecommunication course, because I didn’t know anyone in the class to ask for questions, and I was going to fail the course.

You raped me the day when you asked me to come to your place to watch a movie, and asked me to leave at -10 degree as you didn’t want your flatmates to see you ‘sleep with someone.’

All I thought was you were going to teach me optical telecommunication.

On my way home, I was crying but telling myself to calm down, because the next day was the exam. Of course I failed.

Few months later I was taken by a professor from MIT to conduct a master thesis. After I came back, I passed the Optical Telecommunication exam.

But still, It takes me years to go through mental therapy, and having the syndrome of insomnia, nightmares, and scenarios of myself being sexually assaulted.

I don’t ever want to see other girls suffer from the same thing as I did. Please stop.

Don’t take others for granted, and treat others nicely. Knowledge is power, but is not a power to use as a weapon to show your superiority.

I hope you could one day treat others nicely.

Stasy.”

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Stasy Hsieh
Stasy Hsieh

Written by Stasy Hsieh

Bare honest witness to the world as I have experienced with it.

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