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It's a court ordering it, they have the ability to require those sorts of things, it isn't doxxing someone if that person committed fraud.
by SolarNet 8y ago
It's a court ordering it, they have the ability to require those sorts of things, it isn't doxxing someone if that person committed fraud.
- crysin 8y agoI'm not against the court order. I read the parent's comment as though Facebook was in the wrong for not giving the name to the family before the court order.
- abugheratwork 8y agoFair. You also said you're not sure Facebook was wrong, and made reference to doxing. Let's see if we can clear up those points. Providing the identity (or some approximation) of this person, to the family, is not the same as releasing his home address on 4chan. The term "dox" does not apply. (It might apply if Facebook blindly obeyed the request to restore the page, and it turns out the page has personal information on someone who doesn't want it there. Technically the information was already public, and actually listed in the same place, so I still wouldn't use the term "dox".) I wouldn't expect them to unquestioningly restore the page upon request, but refusing to talk to someone who says their dead family member's profile was taken down by mistake is shitty behavior. Legal, maybe, but I wouldn't go so far as "not wrong". It's pretty wrong. Right?