Lost access to my business on Google infra / services after leaving a positive review on a bakery while on holiday to Paris - for "violating Google Maps policy".
That should teach tech stuff never to leave reviews and comments, too much risk involved.
This reminds me of how people self censure their real opinions in authoritarian regimes. It creates a climate against creativity and innovation, bringing the system down in the long term.
Under what circumstances would you be violating Google Maps policy while travelling and how does it lead you to lose your enture business on Google services. Something doesn't smell right
There is a well documented story of someone loosing his whole firms Google account because a decade before he was privately associated with a developer who years later decided to write scam software. This does not shock me, at all.
But it's really your own fault for not having high reaching contacts into Google's upper tier!
google's policy is to ban everything associated with an account immediately upon violation of obscure policy in one specific product.
i do not know what policy specifically could lead to a ban due to a use of map reviews while traveling internationally but at this point this is what many of us have come to expect from google as a matter of course.
algorithm: OMG, this user has searched for 3 different towns in the same session each of which is the site of a nuclear plant! Potential terrorist match!
This reminds me of how people self censure their real opinions in authoritarian regimes. It creates a climate against creativity and innovation, bringing the system down in the long term.