Is Viber a Trojan horse? The mass bans of Ukrainian accounts

Once I found out that my Viber app can't sent any message, all messages were frozen with clock icons, which probably means "something in progress". Waiting a day, two days, a week and a bit more didn't bring any news...

Once I found out that my Viber app can't sent any message, all messages were frozen with clock icons, which probably means "something in progress". Waiting a day, two days, a week and a bit more didn't bring any news, so I've started to look what it means on Internet. And the problem is much more popular than my wildest prediction. Just a small note: this is Ukraine, 2023 and war time.

Viber's tactic is very cool: they don't tell you about the banned or blocked account. Why is that? The answer is easy: tons of Google searches like "banner account what to do?" are bad for product promotion, it's much better to hide them all wuth "nicer" looking error "can't send a message, please contact support". So the user forces to try to figure it for himself: check if Wi-Fi works, update to latest version and only then contact the support. "Perfect solution", don't you think?

Viber massively bans Ukrainian accounts, and this is not the hate post or fake news. Do you see a similarity in the following cases?

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