No political ads should be banned from any major platform, but ads on every platform should be opt-in. Users should be able to opt-in (not opt-out by default) to ads of any category: political, technology, marketing, fundraising, people, books, etc.

if a user wants political ads, let them have them. They should have a predominant marker on each ad signifying the category and risks, and a selection window to disable seeing those style of ads at anytime.

Sounds like they are going for downtime to allow them to upgrade systems, fix bugs, and help with queue management. This is a perfect way of doing this.

1) Allows them to play it into the 'story' of the game

2) Allows them to create a new innovative map, that's different and stronger

3) Upgrades to graphics, play styles, new modes?, and overall mechanics of the game

4) Optimizing their internal systems and database to handle all of the pressures of being a million+ player game.

Brilliant way of doing this.