This.
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".
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".
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.
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.
But it's really your own fault for not having high reaching contacts into Google's upper tier!