Can’t stand facistbook but this is a case of putting all your eggs in one basket and having blinders on. He should have saved up and gotten a website and used Paypal and/or Stripe.
I’ve been accepting money on the web for 20 years.
It’s been news that the tech companies hate conservatives for quite a while now. Why deal with strictly one for your livelihood?
Still a shitty deal considering.
What if someone hosted your address book of clients and contacts and all of a sudden burned it all down to the ground?
This is horse sht, there is not if or buts about it.
Everyone on here ranting about how he should start his own site is ignoring the fact that either the site that HOSTS "your own" web site (or any of the larger digital pipes farther up the chain) can cut you off, slow you down or strangle your traffic – without notice. Internet access and reach don't come directly from God to your computer without anything in between.
This is why eventually the government will have to set down some basic regulations for "common carrier" status on sites that grow so large as FB.
The internet operates something like a municipal water system. "Your own" web site is like the spigots in your house; but they are connected to a main line from the street to your house, and that main is connected to a larger conduit, and that conduit is connected to an even larger conduit, and that is connected to a purification plant and that is connected to a water source. Many corruptions can break the pipes or the purification plant; other forces upstream can pollute or dam up the water source.
It's the same with internet traffic: there are lots of pipes and joints and places where the volume of flow can break down, or be interfered with, between your site and other users. The bigger and richer the digital giants get, the more control they have over the entire supply line.