The report states that there is *nothing* that infringes the facebook community Standards, and provides a link to these standards - this is simply NOT correct. The Scum watch page clearly violates at least four sections (possibly more) of the community standards:
1: ***Bullying and harassment***
Facebook does not tolerate bullying or ***harassment.*** We allow users to speak freely on matters and people of public interest, but ***take action on all reports of abusive behavior directed at private individuals.*** Repeatedly targeting other users with unwanted friend requests or messages is a form of harassment.
2: ***Hate speech***
Facebook does not permit hate speech, but distinguishes between serious and humorous speech. While we encourage you to challenge ideas, institutions, events, and practices, ***we do not permit individuals or groups to attack others*** based on their race, ethnicity, national origin, religion, sex, gender, sexual orientation, disability or medical condition.
3: ***Identity and privacy***
On Facebook people connect using their real names and identities. We ask that you ***refrain from publishing the personal information of others without their consent.*** Claiming to be another person, creating a false presence for an organization, or creating multiple accounts undermines community and violates Facebook¹s terms.
4: ***Security***
We take the safety of our members seriously and ***work to prevent attempts to compromise their privacy or security***, including those that use fraud or deception. Additionally, we ask that you respect our members by not contacting them for commercial purposes without their consent.
The scum watch page actively seeks out individuals personal details, photo's to identify them to possibly militant animal rights activists and incites others to publish hate messages against these indiviuals who have not broken any laws, whether openly or obviously or otherwise.
This is a fact that they publicly acknowledge by displaying mobile numbers, home and work addresses for these unwitting individuals. This has led to many taking these details and making threatening or abusive phone calls or intimidating the targetted people.
I do not accept that the organisers of this page are trying to promote open and honest activity or debate, and this is a very serious matter that can lead to intimidation, death threats and physical violence being carried out on the people that the scum watch pages are targetting.
The scum watch page is clearly promoting unlawful activity, and Facebook is allowing this page to remain live (despite many facebook users and private indiviuals requests for its removal) and Facebook needs to act IMMEDIATELY to remove this page before someone comes to harm.
I expect a follow up to this communication within 10 working days.
Regards,