I think I understand what you're getting at, but of course if you permaban anyone for any reason they'll have no choice but to leave or make a new account.

I had written a sentence along the lines of "the timeout should increase teenage retention and engagement" but felt it was so obvious based on my previous two sentences. I think now a good summary would have been along the lines of "This can provide a teaching moment to teenagers and improve their experience." Even though this feels like an obvious inference based on the rest of the post, it does provide a nice summary and drives the point I was attempting to make.

That some bullshit digital chat channel company should give itself the right to morally judge when and how people should or shouldn't change is itself an idiotic idea to take seriously. I really do hope more people reject this nonsense over time and actively work to punish companies that assume themselves arbiters of correct behavior. Sure, community standards and moderation are necessary, but MANY digital companies today take that basic concept and stretch it into all kinds of puritanical parochialism. It's almost ironic how much we regress to village shaming standards as we move forward into a global communications future.

Bad take, IMO.

Companies have every right to dictate what behavior they allow on their platform, full stop.