This is stupid because if the overall societal goal was to create better behaviour, then a lifetime ban totally removes any possibility of engagement and educat

This is stupid because if the overall societal goal was to create better behaviour, then a lifetime ban totally removes any possibility of engagement and education, which could result in improvement and rehabilitation. (I am aware the language here potentially indicates willing participation in some kind of arbitrary totalitarianism, but it's for the point of discussion) So this is an equivelent of a life sentance, what's next, special towns where only people banned by facebook live? Or maybe execution. From Facebooks business model perspective, this probably doesn't hurt them while the numbers stay under some smallish magic threshold, but cross that threshhold range and all of sudden they might find they have banned themselves into irrelevance and be just be another MySpace.