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that's not what https://www.inc.com/sonya-mann/salil-mehta-free-speech.html says about it. "Mehta was lucky. The public outcry and press attention prompted Google to manually review his case." "It could have turned out differently. Without his impressive credentials and far-reaching network, Mehta never would have found out why his Google account was shut down. He wouldn't have been able to access his correspondence…
That website (Inc.) doesn't cite any sources for your quotation at all. It simply appears to be their personal speculation. To me that's rather disingenuous. I actually work in a support org at Google (on the Enterprise side, admittedly). That account recovery link I provided ( https://accounts.google.com/signin/recovery ) is available to anybody (This is for consumer - i.e. GMail. If you have an enterprise - i.e. GS…
" A Google spokesperson told Inc. that Mehta mistakenly marked some of his own email as spam, which confused the algorithm and triggered the shutdown. By August 21, the account had been fully restored."
Given that you think that a person without that reach would have had a similar experience....
that's your perogative of course, but you should forgive a little doubt from outsiders that things would've been so smooth for those without recourse to similar avenues.