Stop StopBadware.org and Google from UNFAIRLY blocking websites

DETAILS: On July 3, our website was blocked the 1st time. This was justified (although I disagree with the immediate punishment): it was an old Drupal 7 site that was installed in 2011 and, because of budget constraints, rarely received security patches. For years, it had the Drupageddon and Drupalgeddon exposures. Not surprising it was infested with malware. This is when I got involved (volunteering my time & skills). The website was rewritten as a static site (virtually unhackable) using Hugo on Netlify. On July 26, we were unblocked.

At 1am ET this morning (Aug 1), we were blocked by Google again! The new (Hugo) website had one link to the old (Drupal) website (now with a different subdomain) so users could access content we had not yet migrated to the new website. This link was the reason Google gave for blocking us. I read Google's notification at 6am and immediately removed the links and requested a review via Google's Search Console. At 9am, Google said the review had failed, our website was still blocked, without any additional information. Search Console still says the bad link is to the old website's subdomain. I verified my Hugo source files: there is zero instances of the old website's subdomain name. At 10:30 I submitted another request for review and am still waiting for a response. Their request pop-up says "Warning! Requesting a review of issues that weren't fixed will result in longer review cycles" so I may be waiting a longer time.

(BTW, anyone with inside Google connections, help would be appreciated)

> Or should it be more like the criminal justice system, innocent until proven guilty including after an appeal.

In the criminal justice system, jail or restrictive bail conditions pending outcome of trial is common.

> We are the national governing body for a sport.

Link?

UPDATE: For anyone else running into this problem. Of course, Google never clearly stated this reason, I (and you) have to guess until you get it right. Each guess takes more and more time. My last (and successful) attempt, I had to wait 16 hours for Google to do its review and unblock our site.

Turns out sites are guilty by association. If Google finds malware on "old.chess.ca" it will bock every website ending in "chess.ca". Including "www.chess.ca" even though that website is on different servers (different IP) and contains zero links to the other bad website. Removing the server from DNS, plus disabling with .htaccess rules that redirect all requests, ... plus waiting 16 hours for Google to do another review ... is what got us back up & running.

This is a very scary situation. It means Google could block your website, not for something bad on your website, but for something bad on another website that you just happen to link to. That's beyond your control! Imagine this happening to a website like wikipedia.org, which as millions of links to external websites. If one of those millions of websites gets hacked, will Google block wikipedia.org? This is like being charged with a crime you didn't commit and being punished immediately without even an initial hearing to respond to the charges! Google and StopBadware.org should not have this power on the internet!