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> If my phone company decides who I can call, then I got issues.

> If a website arbitrarily bans all kind of people it will soon be their own problem as people leave with a single click.

False. I use facebook for communicating with people more often than I use the phone network.

Being banned from facebook would have a much larger effect on me, and many others, than being banned from ever making phone calls again, due to the fact that we use facebook for the vast majority of our online communication.

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Is that because you can not replace Facebook, or because it's merely inconvenient to do so?

Because the law doesn't protect convenience in these contexts.

> Is that because you can not replace Facebook, or because it's merely inconvenient to do so

As in it would be much more difficult to replace Facebook as a communication platform for me than it would be for me to be banned from making phone calls ever again.

So facebook is more in the category of "can not replace" than being able to make phone calls.

Again, is that because you literally don't have the physical option of communicating by other ways, or because the people you want to communicate with are too lazy to use another option?

If I ask you to meet me at the bar and you're banned from the bar I've selected, it's not the bar's problem.

> literally don't have the physical option of communicating

I am saying that the problems of getting kicked off of a facebook are larger than that of getting kicked off of the communication utility that is phone calls.

And this is due to things like network effect.

And these issues and prevention that make it difficult for people to switch is larger on facebook than it is for phone calls.

So the "physical prevention" is larger for facebook than it is for phone calls.

I seriously doubt that. Network effect "just" makes a particular means of communication more favorable - it doesn't prevent the use of any of the options.

Not being able to use the phone cuts you of from a lot of services where no option exists.

> Not being able to use the phone cuts you of from a lot of services where no option exists.

Nah, it really doesn't when compared to something like getting banned from facebook.

I make way more video calls with people than I make phone calls. And probably around 50% of my communication is done over FB message.

It would be way less of a problem to get banned from making phone calls for me and for many other people.

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