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If their obligation is to stop the sending of spam, then why is it right that they also block all other uses of the account and all access to all linked accounts? How could it possibly be the case that that is the minimal restriction they could place to prevent sending emails? Surely they could just...not allow the sending of emails from an account.

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Indeed, there are a million things they could do other than suspend the entire account.

It's just lazy admins on a power trip retaliating, doing the easiest & cheapest thing they can think of. Hardly different from blocking an entire /24 because a hacked wordpress install on some VPS started sending spam. Big overreach, but nobody holds them accountable. It reminds me of mafia & gangster movies where the revenge is extended to an entire family/business/building because one bad actor offended one of the mobs.

Yeah, that's a good point. There is a chance it is simply not a possibility in the way their systems are currently set up, but if so, that's on Google and they should change their systems to make it possible.

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