This sounds interesting:

Sued Meta Just wanted to let you guys know I’ve tried everything from attorney general, to appeals I was nervous about to process of suing meta in small claims but today I filed the suit and it was so EASY head to your court house and sue them!

https://www.reddit.com/r/facebookdisabledme/comments/1bc9xj9...

But do I have to sue in California? I am in NJ.

I go to sleep now. I am too devastated.

• ipaddr

  today at 1:46 AM

  You sue in your local small claims court because that's where you live and are affected. The question becomes what business loss you suffered as a result of this.

- Don't sue yet.

- A lawyer will probably charge around $500 for an official-seeming "demand and request to cure" letter. This is your next step. You shouldn't need to pay a retainer fee for this.

- If they don't respond to the letter, or don't address the issue in a satisfactory way, then your next move is to sue them, if you feel you must. In your complaint, you'll reference all communications you sent them previously. You can sue in your home state, as that's where you're located and Facebook evidently does business there. This is going to be expensive; your business cannot represent itself in court, so you must hire a lawyer. If you see it all the way through to trial, an uncomplicated state court case will cost, on average, somewhere in the low six figures in attorney fees; Federal cases are twice as expensive -- probably around $400k on the low end.

• Beijinger

  last Wednesday at 2:16 AM

  Justice is only for rich people in the US

• muzani

  last Wednesday at 9:03 AM

  There's stories of people just writing their own official sounding letters and getting action. Pleading and crying, even over clearly illegal things like revenge porn often gets ignored.

• jfoster

  last Wednesday at 8:05 AM

  I wonder how LLMs are going to change the cost of these activities as they become more accurate & capable. Feels like the costs should come down dramatically in the next few years.

  • bzzzt

    last Wednesday at 12:18 PM

    I predict an arms race between people using LLMs to sue and courthouses using LLMs to keep up with the increasing burden of responding to all the incoming cases. Which means people with access to better, more expensive LLMs will have the advantage.

  • muzani

    last Wednesday at 9:04 AM

    They've already brought it down. As with software, prices don't go down though. It's just that less people get hired to do what was once double the work.

This is what you get for not having your own website and depending on Facebook for your web presence.

• paulluuk

  last Wednesday at 7:19 PM

  What makes you think they don't have a website? Facebook might very well just be one channel to draw customers to their website.

  • mgraybosch

    yesterday at 12:13 AM

    [dead]

PS: I mailed letter and a printout of my trademark from the USPTO to Facebook today via certified mail. I am pretty sure they won't react.

Aren't businesses allowed to refuse service to individuals?

• muzani

  last Wednesday at 11:17 PM

  In this case it sounds like someone is using OP's trademark and refusing service in favor of the trademark violator.

• hehehheh

  yesterday at 1:15 AM

  There are exceptions.

Ask a lawyer to draft some legalese and you might read up on their arbitration policies.

You need legal insurance.