Facebook Faces $500,000 Discrimination Suit For Closing Man's Account

A Long Island man has filed a $500,000 lawsuit against Facebook for closing his account without warning, and the plaintiff is calling this a case of religious discrimination.

Can you put a price tag on the ability to connect with all of your friends, loved ones, acquaintances and business contacts on the social network? One man values it at $500,000 based on the amount he seeks from Facebook for allegedly closing his account without warning.

Mustafa Fteja, a 39-year-old Montenegro man now living in Staten Island, filed the lawsuit in Manhattan Supreme Court yesterday against Facebook, which had disabled his account on September 24.

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