| >It is not. >... nowhere it says you have to receive threats first before requesting removal. Oh come on now, this is taken directly from your link: >Requirements to remove doxxing content >For us to consider the content for removal, it must meet both of these requirements: >1. Your contact info is present. >2. There’s the presence of: >- Explicit or implicit threats, or >- Explicit or implicit calls to action for others to harm or harass. So, yes. To remove doxxing content, you are required to show proof of explicit or implicit threats. If you think about it, the way the requirements are set up are pretty damn backwards. Are you just requesting your personal info to be removed just for the sake of having it removed? Sure, as long as it's your CC/bank account/SSN/whatever else on that list, they'll remove it. But if you tell them you're being doxxed? Well fuck you, they won't just up and remove the data like they would've before, now you have to prove you're being targeted, too. It's like it'd be easier to have the doxxing content removed if you didn't tell them you're being doxxed. |
The other part of the form allows you to require removal just by stating that it has your "personally identifiable information". For example, the many sites offering background checks, your address history, etc.
I agree the form is confusing and should be simplified (i.e., the whole doxxing section seems redundant to me, and should be sub-bullets of the PII section), but OP's comment that you can only request removal after receiving threats is factually incorrect.