[throwaway49872]

Why the stupid downvotes?

For a for-profit company spending millions needs a justifications stronger than a penchant for vigilante justice.

A lot of big companies have a proven history of quietly cooperating with cops, three letter agencies and military.

That type of cooperation often leads to multi-million, even billion $ contracts and special favors from political power.

What is facebook trying to achieve?

[blaser-waffle]

> What is facebook trying to achieve?

Good PR for stopping predators.

Flexing their power in front the FBI and other tech firms.

Trying to demonstrate how obliterating privacy can sometimes have upsides.

Plus, it's clear that Brian Kil was a particularly bad actor and worthy of taking down.

[KaiserPro]

or, more obviously, that having a famous paedophile prancing around on its platform is bad for business. So knocking him offline is worth the cash.