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"my Page had 338,050 Likes, my Support Group had 13,360 members, and my Interest List had 1.47 Million followers. But all of that work was wiped out in an instant when Facebook decided to shut it down without notice."

"Not only did they remove the page, but they also blocked my personal account from posting anything for 12 hours (I can’t even Like anything). They also did the same for anyone who was an Administrator or Moderator of the Page – including my wife’s personal account! Members of the support team, who generously volunteer their time to help users, have been shut out as well. They did one big sweep, I guess."

I came here to post this story, it is unfortunate that this news is not getting more visibility. If possible, check "tell facebook what you think" and try to help Matt since he has worked very hard on this app

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It is against the Facebook TOS, unfortunately shouldn't we be telling him "don't violate Facebook's TOS without expecting repercussions?"

The TOS is not above criticism or complaint, and I for one am tired of people being shouted down because they dared take issue with draconian policies.

I tend to have a lot of problems with the way Facebook operates (mostly involving how they treat their users), but they seem pretty reasonable in this case. How is it draconian to not allow a Page on your platform that (among other things) blocks your source of revenue? (social fixer allows blocking Facebook ads)

So does Adblock Plus, so does Noscript, so do the content filtering features of major browsers, yet those all have major pages. Blocking the people is just plain dickery on Facebook's part.

Not at all. FBpurity is still functioning. I have to download it from a 3rd party site. You can't expect Facebook to allow products which deliberately violate their TOS to be hosted/promoted/advertised on Facebook.

>You can't expect Facebook to allow products which deliberately violate their TOS to be hosted/promoted/advertised on Facebook.

I certainly can (and do) expect humanity and rational thought to take priority over cold application of The Rules Über Alles - and any instances of the latter deserve to be called out for the silliness that they are.

Further, it's not like Facebook didn't know about this until now. Social Fixer used to be called Better Facebook until Facebook tapped them on the shoulder and asked them to change the name last year.

FB, Google, Amazon etc aren't humanitarian organizations or charity. They are in the business of providing a product, and making money while doing it.

Which has what to do with the price of tea in china?

It has to do with the fact that they have no reason to "play nice for the betterment of humanity" if you don't follow their rules, and every reason to be well within their rights to boot you from their site for what ever reason they choose.

Your argument for why something is draconian is that they haven't yet cracked down 100%? Surely you see how ass-backwards that is. I get the idea that inconsistent enforcement sucks (in this case it's likely because the adblock blowback would be higher), but draconian isn't just a synonym for bad, it has its own definition and it does not fit incomplete enforcement.

> I for one am tired of people being shouted down because they dared take issue with draconian policies.

You speak of Facebook as though it's a democracy or a public service. Facebook is a business, not a charity, and not a humanitarian enterprise.

You open to the public, you open yourself up to public criticism. The way the business is run is irrelevant. The fact of the matter is, this sucks, and complaining (loudly) is the way to get it fixed.

> You open to the public, you open yourself up to public criticism.

Yes, but not public control or public voting on policies.

> The fact of the matter is, this sucks, and complaining (loudly) is the way to get it fixed.

You think businesses deserve to be controlled by the loudest voice among its detractors? If that were true, Tesla would be out of business -- it has many quiet fans, and a few loud detractors.

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