Facebook banning thousands of people for 200M years (reddit.com)

What then would the incentive be for users to leave Facebook? The conflict is why social media companies come and go. Most young people don’t even use Facebook anymore, or hardly any

If you're going to bad your business on someone else's business, you're in for a bad time.

>Facebook is the defacto organization standard for many local businesses and communities.

I upvoted you just for saying that on HN. Which is an extremely unpopular and contrarian opinion.

Not entirely sure about civil right part. But the argument is somewhat similar to Apple's App Store so I could used the same argument from both side on it.

Somedays I just feel once you or your company grows big and powerful enough everything you do is somewhat wrong.

Is a radio station obligated to put you on the air and let you say whatever you want? No. And those are publicly owned airwaves. You have a right to free speech. You don't have a right to be heard, nor a right to stand on a billion dollar multinational soapbox. The fact that it's a de facto standard or the biggest megaphone at your disposal has zero bearing on your right to use of it. It's a private platform. Many of us made the decision in 2008 not to create Facebook accounts or to do anything through that company. Your mistake is you thought you understood your role in something, and didn't; thought you had a right to something which turned out to be a very easily revocable privilege. I really hope FB slowly takes their own network apart at the great distress and alarm of every single user who views it as indispensable, specifically so people will be individually and forcefully disabused of the notion that they were part of an actual community. I find it hard to think of anyone I know who relies on Facebook who I wouldn't banhammer from any site I owned.