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Yeah, I just realized this myself. Never really thought about it until I started seeing Google, Twitter, Facebook and other large companies, start banning peop
by SmokeyHamster 6y ago
Yeah, I just realized this myself.
Never really thought about it until I started seeing Google, Twitter, Facebook and other large companies, start banning people for political reasons.
Imagine if you signed into some site using your Facebook account, and then some intern at Facebook moderating posts didn't like some political statement you ban, and suspended your account?
Like the article says, you're not just locked out of Facebook, but any other account that uses Facebook to authenticate.
That give these sites an insane amount of power. You can argue these massive companies have a right to ban whoever they want on their own platforms, for whatever reason they want. But they shouldn't have a right to ban people on other platforms.
Even if a ban/suspension is made in error and can be reversed, that could still cause someone a lot of harm, or be used as a political weapon. That's legitimately scary.