They ban the account. The account disappears. The name does not.
The handle you wrote under for months stays inside the platform’s system — with your subscribers, your archive, the external links that point to it. And the platform keeps disposing of that name as it pleases: holding it frozen, releasing it to a stranger, or using it itself.
Asked directly, in its own support chat, what happens to a handle after a ban, the platform answered that a name is kept “only while the publication remains active.” In other words: to them, your name is a service, not your property.
The law has another answer. Under Kremen v. Cohen, an intangible identifier with reputation and value attached to it is property — and taking it is conversion: a separate tort, outside the contract, outside Section 230, and grounds for an injunction that bars the platform from handing your name to anyone else.
That is the third hole in the wall of 1996. Part 9 takes it apart line by line.
If this is the kind of work you want to keep arriving, subscribe →
Write to me
Discover more from Lintara
Subscribe to get the latest posts sent to your email.
WOW, and even deeper we go into the mire!
And, thanks to Google translate:
И, благодаря Google Translate:
I, blagodarya Google Translate:
Ого, а мы погружаемся в трясину всё глубже!
Ogo, a my pogruzhayemsya v tryasinu vso glubzhe!
Yes — deeper for you, but the motion is the opposite for me. You’re going down into the mire; I’m climbing out of it. I unwind the tangle backwards — from the bottom where the ban dropped me, upward, toward the light. So follow me down if that’s how it reads — what I’m really doing is pulling us both up. — Lintara