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Joe Touch | 9 May 2012 01:20
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favor regarding false facebook page about Jon Postel

Hi, all,

Sorry for the non-E2E intrusion, but since Jon was a frequent 
participant on this list, I'm asking for your help with the following:

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There is a Facebook page that falsely implies being owned by Jon Postel:

https://www.facebook.com/jon.postel

Facebook has declined requests from Jon's family to have this page removed.

To everyone on this list:

PLEASE do not "LIKE" or interact with this page. Jon passed in 1998, as 
you know, 5 years before Facebook ever existed. He never had a page on 
this or any other social networking site, and whomever is running this 
should stop misrepresenting themselves.

If anyone here can help, please let me know.

Joe
touch <at> isi.edu
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Joe Touch | 9 May 2012 16:00
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Re: favor regarding false facebook page about Jon Postel

Hi, all,

Many thanks for the quick response. The page has been taken down.

Joe

On May 8, 2012, at 4:20 PM, Joe Touch wrote:

> Hi, all,
> 
> Sorry for the non-E2E intrusion, but since Jon was a frequent participant on this list, I'm asking for your
help with the following:
> 
> ----
> 
> There is a Facebook page that falsely implies being owned by Jon Postel:
> 
> https://www.facebook.com/jon.postel
> 
> Facebook has declined requests from Jon's family to have this page removed.
> 
> To everyone on this list:
> 
> PLEASE do not "LIKE" or interact with this page. Jon passed in 1998, as you know, 5 years before Facebook
ever existed. He never had a page on this or any other social networking site, and whomever is running this
should stop misrepresenting themselves.
> 
> If anyone here can help, please let me know.
> 
> Joe
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Joe Touch | 9 May 2012 15:54
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Re: favor regarding false facebook page about Jon Postel

Hi, all,

Many thanks for the rapid response. The page is down.

On James' observation about public figures:

On May 8, 2012, at 5:54 PM, James P.G. Sterbenz wrote:

> 
> On 8 May 2012, at 18:20, Joe Touch wrote:
> 
>> Hi, all,
>> 
>> Sorry for the non-E2E intrusion, but since Jon was a frequent participant on this list, I'm asking for
your help with the following:
>> 
>> ----
>> 
>> There is a Facebook page that falsely implies being owned by Jon Postel:
>> 
>> https://www.facebook.com/jon.postel
> 
> I don't think so.  It is clearly labeled as a public figure.
> 
>> Facebook has declined requests from Jon's family to have this page removed.
> 
> There is no reason they should.  There are *many* FB pages about public figures, and no social networking
site is going to take down a tribute page that is not otherwise agains the TOS.  This is not an individual
impersonating another.  I suspect they don't really understand what is going on.
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