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They could've contacted people with a warning first. Act like actual humans. A company acting like a pure machine towards humans is not acceptable.

Besides that: Google is digitally killing people here for doing something whose damage to Google is not obvious to a layperson, and honestly not even obvious to me.

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Perhaps they needed to suspend the account immediately to cover themselves legally? Besides most things at Google are automated. It's likely that a human didn't actually press the button that suspended the accounts.

I don't care about technical justifications, i was talking about morality and humanity. Google is still a company composed of humans, but a few people in there seem to lack a certain amount humanity.

Please do keep in mind: They digitally killed people here in something that looks like pure and petty spite from Google. Some of these people might have relied on their gmail account for their livelihood. (Think remote freelancers, etc.)

You can also look at it like this: The punishment is wildly out of proportion to the crime.

Even if Google is staffed by humans (it is), they have to act in-line with their job description. So long as their internal policies are the way they are, Google the company will lack humanity. And you can't change the internal policies because that's against shareholder interests.

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