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So, it's your complaint isn't, as you initially presented it, that you were unfairly listed as a badware site, but instead that you were rightly listed once, asked to be delisted after incompletely dealing with the problem, rightly failed the subsequent review, but this time you really did deal with it?

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Huh? The key point here is I don't think Google should block any website without providing some warning an an opportunity to fix the issue before imposing an immediate punishment. What if google.com search engine linked to a badware website? Should it be immediately blocked until fixed pending a review? No, of course not. Do onto others as you would have others do onto you.

> The key point here is I don't think Google should block any website without providing some warning an an opportunity to fix the issue before imposing an immediate punishment.

This isn't punishment, it's end-user protection of the same type as other anti-malware tools. And the protection fundamentally cannot work if operated in the way you suggest.

To use your criminal justice analogue you've not only confessed to the crime, but confessed to continuing the crime while seeking pre-trial release, after an evolving series of denials.

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