I got a new MacBook Pro 2 years ago whose screen got black lines after a few days of use, went to Apple support, they changed the screen and didn’t charge me a cent. The guy told me since there’s no physical damage, nothing would be charged
One more reason not to use a single email address for multiple services. Violation of terms of services in one of them can be catastrophic, like in the article, the author's google account gets deleted with just warning.
I was one of the core developers on the game named "Happy fish" 7-8 years ago, I wonder why was that blocked, as I don't remember the company being Chinese owned.
As a third world citizen, where we always have to apply for US visa to visit, this is highly unusual.
In most of the cases we are informed during the in person interview of approval or denial, in case of approval, we have our visas stamped within a month.