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ashneo76
This needs to be higher up. Google is evil.

Deciding to shut down people's backlash against a company and its practices, just in it's own?

Who made Google the arbitraror of that?

souprock
I guess that makes sense, after deleting the positive reviews and the app itself and the developer account. Keeping a fraudulent app around is pretty bad.
Nasrudith
Sounds like a case of tripping anti review bombing - scores don't normally turn on a dime from a large surge of reviews. This is one of the relatively few cases where it is "organic" in that it is a direct response of users to their actions and not a marketing effort from competitors. Even if you took all of the scandals which made the news and lead to legitimate negative reviews they would be a tiny sliver compared to the adversary attacks.