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They obviously have a deficient (missing) counter-notice mechanism. I'm not willing to perjure myself, but I would love to see what happens when several dozen politicians get have their pages mysteriously taken down. Actually, not really, now that I think about it. Seems like a pretty serious social-denial-of-service attack vector. A handful of guys working with basic anonymity tools could make vast swaths of Facebook unusable.


Paradoxically, a mass exploitation of it would be ``good'' in that it would force Facebook to fix the process. Due to the current low volume, the problem lingers, while people and organizations get hurt.

Low volume as compared to other Facebook traffic, anyway.




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