Thousands of small business owners have had there Google Adsense accounts disabled without a proper explanation what their offense was. The "offending" parties also had their recent Adsense earnings revoked.
Here are examples:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_A_pcjwn0k
http://www.northcountrygazette.org/2012/06/06/get_the_shaft/



