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An earlier story: "Facebook activated my dormant account and it won’t let me deactivate it" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13965134 https://news.ycombin

• Karunamon 9y ago
  The story there is an incredibly uncharitable reading of what actually happened. It appears as if the author's password was guessed and the account was reactivated. When he went to dispute this as account theft, they demanded ID to prove ownership. That doesn't strike me as particularly unreasonable, rather projection of ill will onto Facebook. They have no way of knowing which person is actually the account owner, actual ID would definitively settle the matter.