Man Served Restraining Order Via Facebook

schliz writes "An Australian man has been served a restraining order via Facebook, after unsuccessful attempts by police to reach him by phone and in person. The man was a 'prolific Facebook user' who had allegedly threatened, bullied and harassed a former partner online. He was served both interim and final intervention orders by Facebook, after a local magistrate upheld the interim order indefinitely."

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Re:Good luck with that.

[drinkypoo]

Usually the person that serves the subpoena doesn't know the person being served. The profile picture and semi-private info on someone's profile shouldn't be enough to hold up in court.

I Must Be New Here, but if you Read The Fine Summary you will see that the man was being served a restraining order for his activities on facebook. It hardly matters what his real name is, since clearly you can serve the restraining order to the individual in question. If the name on the order doesn't match the person's real name, but does match their facebook account, then it's sufficient to drag them into court if they violate it, and then issue a new one (and perhaps some new charges, not least violation of the order) with the subject's real name attached.

See, laws are enforced in the real world, where we have ways around this sort of thing, not in an imaginary castle of perfect logic...

Try reading the summary in the future. It might help you. Then again, it might not. I could bet either way.