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I see a lot of people saying "who cares, it's just a site, so what if you're banned". But I am reading about people losing connections with relatives, friends,
by smsm42 5y ago
I see a lot of people saying "who cares, it's just a site, so what if you're banned". But I am reading about people losing connections with relatives, friends, business partners, unable to access services and have their lives upended because somebody, somewhere, for some undisclosed reasons, and without any recourse, decided to cancel their account. I suspect it's going beyond "just some site". And we either need a public awareness campaign for people to stop their reliance on such sites so much in their public lives, or find some solution to the immense control that companies like Facebook have on people's life and how abusive this control has become.
People that have platforms with millions of listeners should start using their platforms - not just to make their friend unbanned this one time, but to illuminate the dangers of the dystopian situation we're sleepwalking into. People should know that facebook is unreliable, erratic, capricious platform, where you could get randomly excluded for life without any recourse, and friends shouldn't let friends use facebook, at least not for anything remotely important.
- kova12 5y agoAnother thing that irks me as blatantly wrong is that those account bans just cut the people off the network cold turkey. Even criminals don't get such treatment. You don't just "disappear" if you are convicted. But with facebook you just vanish. Nobody tells you "your account will be banned in 7 days, please close up the convos". You can't post "hey, I'm getting off facebook, contact me by email at xxx". There's no autoreply. People you were having dialog with don't know what happened, just assume you blew them off. And also facebook (and google for the same matter) is used by many sites as an identity provider, which has an effect of severing your access to sites that may or may not want that, and likely don't even know. What if you are in the middle of financial transaction, which you can not complete now because account is banned? This is such a clusterfuck