News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Facebook has been granted patent on shadow banning. Parent comment

Re:Facebook has been granted patent on shadow banning by tengbretson on Thursday August 08, 2019 @06:09PM (#20649356)
> you don't have a right not to be shadow banned

You kind of do. They can't claim they offer one experience and then knowingly provide another, lesser one.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Facebook has been granted patent on shadow banning by TomMarius on Thursday August 08, 2019 @06:37PM (#20649601)
Of course they can. They just can't sell you stuff based on false premises. E.g. selling an ad that won't display because you're shadow banned but you don't know that.
[ Parent | on HN ]