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Re:Facebook has been granted patent on shadow banning by Ocysellus on Thursday August 08, 2019 @09:04PM (#20650464)
Why do you think that Facebook decided to patent it now?
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Re:Facebook has been granted patent on shadow banning by jedberg on Thursday August 08, 2019 @09:09PM (#20650483)
Large tech companies try to patent anything they can do they can have a large portfolio to offer for cross licensing when they get sued.

Also they filed in 2012, it just took seven years to grant.

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Re:Facebook has been granted patent on shadow banning by cryptonector on Friday August 09, 2019 @10:58AM (#20654954)
Employees often get paid a small bonus for each patent issued with them as authors.
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