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It is not outright ban, rather banishment to a very inhospitable place, a Siberia of ideas, so to say. (Russia often sent dissenters to live in Siberia.)

If eBay was a tiny company, it would be nothing, but you cannot ignore the effects of scale and market dominance here.

It is similar to the smartphone world: if Google and Apple block you, in practice you are destroyed.



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