> incorrectly disabled Google accounts are actually incredibly rare -- they make the news and cause uproar when they occur, but precisely because it's so unusual
Or they rarely make the news because they're so common, and the few that get publicised are because the victim raises a big stink on social media.
I've certainly created Twitter and Microsoft accounts and had them wrongly disabled within days, despite not doing anything at all with them, let alone anything abusive. Perhaps because I decline to use my cell phone number for 2FA?
> had them wrongly disabled within days, despite not doing anything at all with them
That's because that's also a common tactic used by spammers -- to register and then do nothing for days/months, on the hopes that an "older" account will be less suspicious.
Nobody's complaining about that though because it's not a problem. No data is lost. Also, I've had it happen to myself (with Twitter) and it was incredibly easy to re-instate.
To clarify, I was referring to legitimate, in-use (with data to lose) accounts being incorrectly disabled.
Or they rarely make the news because they're so common, and the few that get publicised are because the victim raises a big stink on social media.
I've certainly created Twitter and Microsoft accounts and had them wrongly disabled within days, despite not doing anything at all with them, let alone anything abusive. Perhaps because I decline to use my cell phone number for 2FA?