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  "publishedAt": "2026-06-13T01:06:16.000Z",
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    "Banned for no reason, terrible support",
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  "textContent": "This is what I posted earlier here: Banned for no reason, terrible support\n\nThen I got a response which is incorrect, and the thread was closed, so I couldn’t respond, silencing any further resolution. But I’m not going away until this is fixed, so let’s try this again, shall we?\n\n* * *\n\nThanks for sharing the details, @Madbaron.\n\nOne point to clarify for others reading: your account was banned a day before the larger mass suspension event, and your case was reviewed manually by our specialized team.\n\nAt this time, once a final appeal decision has been issued, support is not able to override the account status, reverse the decision, or start a second review. I understand why that feels especially difficult when the process may have felt unfair.\n\nOn the refund request, that question has been shared with the specialized team for further investigation, and they’ll follow up on your existing email thread once there’s an update.\n\n## -Mark G.\n\nSo to continue, no, my suspension or banning was not done the day before. It was done the day of, along with everyone else. As I mentioned in my previous post, I’m in Northeastern Europe, so when I get up, you all are asleep. It feels like the situation happened a day earlier, but it actually happened at the same time as everyone else, around 8:50 p.m. Eastern Standard Time. And if you go and look at all of the posts that people made about this, that’s around the time that many other people were suspended or banned.\n\nThe header from my email: “Friday, June 5th, 2026 at 1:58 AM”\n\nI’ve been in tech for a very long time, and I’m not a kid or a foreigner - although I do have a couple of kids myself. I’m an American citizen living in Estonia. I’ve sold three companies, including one to Amazon, when I was the CTO of a company back in 2008. Hell, I even helped Jason Calacanis and Mike Arrington run TechCrunch50 in SF one year, so I know people. I don’t want to have to call in favors just because you guys can’t see your way clear to actually fix this problem.I haven’t done anything to violate any of your terms of service, and you’re treating me like I’m some Reddit poster who’s pissed off a moderator, which is highly unusual and unacceptable.\n\nPlease have someone call me, or give me the number of someone that I can call, so we can discuss what the problem appears to be, and get it resolved. I can share my phone number privately. You’re not telling me anything, and you’re arbitrarily banning my account for some nebulous “behavior”. This is absurd. You can’t treat customers like this.",
  "title": "Okay, what's going on, OpenAI? This is really weird with the banning and censorship"
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