Posted on 06/16/2023 7:17:15 AM PDT by lowbridge
A man in Georgia who was denied access to his Facebook account, where many of his personal photos were stored online, took action against the company — and won, according to a report.
Jason Crawford, of Columbus, said Facebook "terminated" his account for "no valid reason" and then refused to work with him on rectifying the situation, so he sued them, FOX 5 Atlanta reported.
"I just think it's bad business practice. It's a crappy way to treat people. At least tell me what I did wrong," Crawford told the local station.
Crawford repeatedly reached out to Facebook's parent company Meta Platforms, which also runs Instagram and WhatsApp, but the tech giant left him on read, he explained.
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"I had, I don't even know how you quantify it, pictures, videos, posts that you know come up as memories that I like to look at from time to time. Ya know, all that kind of stuff that I wasn't willing to let a bunch of bullies take away from me for no reason," he told FOX Atlanta.
Despite the lawsuit, nothing happened.
Crawford explained: "It was as if I didn't exist and Facebook was operated by a bunch of ghosts or something."
And the silence continued.
Because Facebook’s legal team did not respond to the lawsuit, a judge ordered Meta to pay him $50,000.
That’s when he finally heard from the tech company.
"I felt a little bit vindicated, and they activated my account again," Crawford told the station.
The fight is not yet finished, however, as Crawford claims Facebook is not cooperating with the judgment and has not paid out a dime.
"Every step of the way Facebook is choosing not to do the right thing," he told FOX Atlanta.
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I had the same thing, sort of.
The blocked my listing and wouldn’t tell me what I did wrong.
It took days for my detective work to figure it out.
Facebook is evil.
I had a rental up for weeks, no issue. One person must have flagged it, then it came down.
The fix was — I had photos of the rental outside and inside. And a photo of the adjacent pasture land, with a cow and donkey. You can’t sell animals on facebook and that photo took my listing down without even a whisper.
AI will be the death of us.
It will be a more complete win when he gets his $50,000.
Just take the judgement and get a sheriff to seize a server or two. That will get some attention.
The judge should impose a penalty of 1000 dollars per day until the 50 grand is paid.
I hate those arseholes at Photobucket who provided free photo storage and then locked users out unless they paid an unreasonable annual fee as ransom. It would be OK if they’d just provided a tool so you could download your photos and then close your account.
That's $365,000 a year. Chump change to Facebook.
It will have to be $10,000,000 a day before it gets their attention.
Not AI. Some sniveling liberal Nazi didn’t like something you posted and decided to mess with you. All liberals are totalitarian monsters. Misusing their power is the soup de jour.
Ha. They tried that with me. Unfortunately for them I keep everything backed up on spare hard drives via a USB port. I’d never trust any online service or cloud or nothin.
You may be right, either way the plaintiff makes bank.
Since when has Facebook suddenly become an entitlement? It’s a free service where any dopey person (like me) can volunteer to be exploited, tracked, and marketed to in exchange for connecting to friends, networking, and archiving photos of our lives. It’s his own fault if he g deleted his media after uploading.
The social media sites all censer. Now doing so at your home.
They are compiling a dossier on you in case you have any ‘wrong’ thinking’.
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In most states, judges lack the authority to impose a "penalty" for failing to appear and defend in a lawsuit or refusing to pay a money judgment. The plaintiff can now take his default judgment to California or any place else where Meta (the owner of Facebook) has a bank account or other assets to satisfy the judgment. Or it can serve Meta with post judgment subpoena in an effort to obtain information about Meta's assets, and if Meta does not respond, then the plaintiff can file a motion with the court to hold Meta in civil contempt of court. Only then, if the court finds Meta in contempt, can the court assess a monetary penalty for each day that Meta ignores the subpoena.
OK good to know. Thanks!
My pleasure.
This. A guy in Omaha got a small claims judgement against Eastern airlines back in the 80s I believe. Went to the Omaha airport with a deputy & after the plane was loaded, had the papers served. They had to get Frank Borman out of a meeting to ok the $200 payment to satisfy the judgement.
it should be required that when an account is canceled that there be a name of an employee tied to the account being canceled. my bet is that it would be discovered that the same person is canceling a lot of conservative accounts. these people are cowards and the fact that their name would be tied to the account for law suit discovery pourposes is enough to stop a lot of this type of abuse.
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