[ben_jones]

Reminds me of how gaming accounts are frequently banned for automation or similar cheating, only to pull at heart strings saying they were hacked and that they themselves did not commit the cheating. With VPNs and similar tools it can be difficult for the moderator to know for sure so bad actors take advantage of the situation. As a result you get a painful margin of error the is difficult to reduce without significant changes to the system.

I'm not on Google's side, look at my post history, but there are always two sides to a story.

[tapland]

I've never heard of such a case in gaming resulting in the person being unbanned, but maybe it's a newer development?

[ben_jones]

My experience comes from a specific niche: MMORPG botting which using an automation script to train/goldfarm for the account while the player is not at the computer. This is coupled with a large amount of account scamming/hacking such that it is fairly reasonable that someone might have stolen your account and botted on it for their own gains.