[caprese]

Forget the ToS and sue for damages.

That account had value and this is a poor business practice. Courts award value and the damages are to make a point that its a bad practice if the judge/regulator finds it disturbing. Assuming that the judge / consumer regulator will say "well but you clicked I agree" is a bad assumption, ESPECIALLY when European countries are involved. the company is just as likely to axe that contract logic and just lean on their severability clause to keep the rest of the contract without self-granting the ability to reassign accounts.

Instagram would be in a better place if it generally brokered and escrowed account trading on its platform, and took a fee from that.

[ovao]

The user still has the account, just with a different handle.

[joering2]

“You honor, the mortage owner still has a house, just in a different district.”, said bank representative.

[caprese]

the handle was valuable in this instance

in other instances the follower and engagement to the userID is valuable

in other instances a combination of all three is valuable