Note that Google can terminate your account with no recourse (it has no customer support to speak of) due to completely unrelated reasons
Another example of this that comes to mind is when fans of a YouTube streamer got their entire Google accounts banned for posting too many emojis (as votes, at the streamer’s behest) in YouTube chat.
Turns out it can also happen for sending your child’s medical pictures to a doctor (and also send the cops after you).
Or for storing “educational content on Palestine”. Unverified story, and there’s a few more such stories and links at [1] and [2],
(I’m not including cases where it was a developer account—i.e. an account used to publish apps—that was banned.)
The core issue seems to have two sides:
Google’s automated systems are sometimes too eager about banning accounts, if you in any way happen to stand out as a (false) positive case
Google’s script-following customer support seems pretty bad at then dealing with these cases, giving no information, and worse, taking in no information provided to them, and in general the best customer support avenue seems to be Hacker News or some other news outlet.
This is the visible tip of the iceberg where the accounts do (generally) get reinstated, but we don’t know how large the invisible part of the iceberg is, and what the chances of getting your account back are if you aren’t lucky enough to be in the visible part.