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by aaomidi 1496 days ago
I've said this before and I'll say it again. It should be illegal to fully ban accounts. Figure out how to make them readonly. That's the only ban type that should happen. Yes, even if there is illegal content. If you really have to, quarantine the illegal content, but keep the rest of the account available.

Unless the failure rate is literally 0%, there should never be a permanent full ban.

Apply this to companies over a certain size.

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This is absurd. Don't entrust an online service with the only copies of important data if you don't want to lose it. Even in the most statist society imaginable, making it a criminal act to 'fully ban' a user from a 'service' is barely even definable, let alone feasible or desirable.