[harryh]

"because of the grey area of our tech"

"told us straight out that it would and we should move"

Sounds shady. I bet this would make more sense if OP explained what his company actually does.

[golfer]

Exactly -- there is a lot the OP isn't telling us. Maybe Google was right to shut them down.

[__david__]

I'd rather my cloud provider err on the permissive side. Preemptively shutting suspicious things down without an external complaint seems a bit much…

[justinclift]

Well, there are all kinds of grey area stuff. One fairly obvious example is various security services, which have a wide variety.

Not everything is outright "likely to get banned" (eg pron things). ;)

[nodesocket]

Yup, agree. OP was probably doing something against the terms. Care to provide details?

[path411]

Well, "grey" can mean a lot of things when you are talking about the same company that moderates Youtube.