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by moron4hire 1777 days ago
> Creating a separate account just for using the hardware is not only expressly forbidden, but can result in you being locked out of your device:

I'm not one to defend Facebook, but what you've said is just not true. That only happened to a handful of people at the very beginning and was likely a moderation bug. People aren't getting banned for having burner accounts.

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It's not important what is or is not happening right now, or even a little while ago.

The TOS expressly allows them to lock you out of your account if they detect you using an account that is not your Facebook Real Identity (tm)

They are allowed to brick your Oculus at any time, with no recourse.

See "I want to use a name different from my legal name for my Facebook account." Here https://support.oculus.com/fb/

And "If I’m having problems accessing my Facebook account, can I still use my Oculus device?" here https://www.oculus.com/blog/facebook-accounts-on-oculus/

https://www.facebook.com/help/112146705538576/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook_real-name_policy_cont... https://www.wired.com/2015/06/facebook-real-name-policy-prob... https://media.business-humanrights.org/media/documents/files...

it's hard to judge how frequent but there are a continuous stream of people and even one prominent YouTube reviewer who got their whole FB account banned (sometimes their actual lifelong account).

https://www.reddit.com/r/oculus/search?q=banned&restrict_sr=...

I've had this happen to me on more than one occasion over several years, so I find it very hard to see it as a "moderation bug"
You've had burner accounts disabled, or you've had your oculus quest 2 disabled for using burner accounts multiple times over several years? Impressive considering it's been out for less than a year.