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Or have ban groups. Ban someone from having a Facebook profile, buying ads, sending Messages, or having an Instagram profile based on their behavior on those respective sections of the site. Maybe disable a person's multiplayer capabilities if they have a reputation for harassment.

But let them keep their hardware running, and access their game library.

Seems good for business, tbh. You might not want neo-nazis posting whatever they want on their profiles, but who cares if they're buying video games?



Yes, Facebook really doesn't have a convincing argument why they will not just disable the social interaction features when the ban is made on that basis. They will say that they want to build social features into all their software as integral and therefore it is not possible but it doesn't pass muster to me .... it simply isn't that hard to make it conditionally available within apps and if it is that hard then it is Facebook's fault for engineering it that way.


Perhaps they're trying to avoid a situation where banned people get a better experience because they don't have to deal with the social features.




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