Facebook can ban you for two hundred, Fifty THOUSANDS years

(Paywall-free popularization like this is what I do for a living. To support me, see the end of this post)

No, not really that long. But it’s too stupid anyway.

About one week ago, it looks like Facebook has had enough of a colleague of mine “telling people in groups that they are wrong”.

So they blocked him for much, much, much longer than planet Krypton’s most notorious criminals:

Facebook can ban you for two hundred, Fifty THOUSANDS years /img/banned-by-facebook-25-years.jpg

“two hundred nineteen thousand years and then some”

Artificial Intelligence, this is not. Yes, surely this particular “ban” is just a programming error. Still, the worst part is the mere thought that Facebook may still be around, in a quarter of an eon.

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