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A comment on Ask HN: Facebook blocked us and there's nothing we can do?.

Re:Ask HN: Facebook blocked us and there's nothing we can do? by mschuster91 on Tuesday May 27, 2014 @09:17AM (#7804261)
That total lack of accountability really, really sucks. If I'm a domain registrar and my DNS servers go down, I'm liable for damages. Same if I am a hoster. Or, to stay in the meatspace, when I am a railway/flight operator, I'm liable by law for delays.

Yet, if Facebook or Google decide to block, downrank etc. my business, I have no legal options at all, I don't even have any transparency. Everyone is at the mercy of the Cloud Gods. That has to change.

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Re:Ask HN: Facebook blocked us and there's nothing we can do? by Houshalter on Tuesday May 27, 2014 @09:45AM (#7804373)
It does suck, but on the other hand spam is rampant and fighting it from overrunning your site necessarily means there will be some gray areas and false positives.
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Re:Ask HN: Facebook blocked us and there's nothing we can do? by ende42 on Tuesday May 27, 2014 @09:54AM (#7804432)
I agree 100%. I know they at least have to try to reduce spam. I only wish anybody would react on our error reports.
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Re:Ask HN: Facebook blocked us and there's nothing we can do? by rsankar on Tuesday May 27, 2014 @01:28PM (#7805640)
You pay for tickets.You pay your registrar. You don't have to pay for Google and Facebook .
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Re:Ask HN: Facebook blocked us and there's nothing we can do? by mschuster91 on Tuesday May 27, 2014 @05:20PM (#7806941)
As an advertising customer, yes I do pay them.
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