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Re:Facebook's legal team bans developer of F.B. Purity from ... by kybernetyk on Wednesday December 19, 2012 @07:07PM (#4945579)
> but in Germany I would beg to differ. Here, if you run a service, you do NOT have the right to arbitrarily reject users.

Sure you have. It's called 'virtuelles Hausverbot' and heise.de makes heavy use of it for their forums.

Most prominent case: Guenther Freiherr v. Gravenreuth was legally banned from heise.de forums with this instrument.

Here's the german wikipedia article: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtuelles_Hausverbot

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Re:Facebook's legal team bans developer of F.B. Purity from ... by itry on Wednesday December 19, 2012 @07:25PM (#4945647)
Have you read the article you link to? It explicitely says that you can NOT arbitrarily reject users. ("ein Hausverbot nicht willkürlich ausgeübt werden dürfe")

The bans by Heise where not arbitrarily.

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Re:Facebook's legal team bans developer of F.B. Purity from ... by kybernetyk on Saturday December 22, 2012 @03:13PM (#4957355)
So isn't this ban by facebook. The guy is acting against their TOS he has accepted.
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