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Fair. 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 s
by abugheratwork 8y ago
Fair. 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?