Facebook shuts down page of lead DADT repeal group based on fake complaint

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Hello HN - Anyone have contacts at Facebook? They killed our page facebook.com/outserve on a false claim of IP infringement from a fictitious person. Any help from this group would be much appreciated.

Thanks! -Ty Walrod OutServe Co-Founder http://outserve.org

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I wonder how Facebook would react if people tried sending fake complaints about other, higher-profile pages?

Exactly my thought. What if someone decided to start doing this for politicians and political parties? And then goes to YouTube and reports a bunch of political ads for copyright infringement as well?

I'm not recommending that someone actually try this, but unfortunately I'm afraid that might be more effective than tech sites blacking out their sites for a day in protest.

If anyone has contacts at Facebook who can help escalate this, it would be highly appreciated. Thanks! -Ty

If they're anything like Google, multiple employees have probably already read this and a few have probably already started the escalation process.

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