Film critic Roger Ebert had his Facebook Page taken down by the social network following comments that he made about “Jackass” star Ryan Dunn, who died in a car crash along with a passenger after allegedly drinking with friends.

Ebert said on Twitter that “Friends don’t let jackasses drink and drive,” which led to a string of his followers saying that his comments were insensitive, considering that Dunn had just died and that the cause of death has not yet been confirmed. Ebert posted the same sentence, along with a link to a report of Dunn’s death, on the Roger Ebert Facebook Page.

This action led to a string of complaints from Facebook users and Facebook took down his personal page Tuesday morning. Ebert tweeted about his frustration that Facebook had removed the page.

The page has since been restored, but this raises questions over Facebook’s tendency to take down pages following bogus complaints. There was nothing unlawful about what Ebert said (in fact, his message is a sensible one), but perhaps his tweet and Facebook update were insensitive and ill-timed.

Meanwhile, the backlash against Ebert is continuing. Dunn’s best friend and “Jackass” co-star Bam Margera has ripped Ebert for his comments on Twitter.

“I just lost my best friend, I have been crying hysterical for a full day and piece of s*** roger ebert has the gall to put in his 2 cents,” said Margera. He followed that by saying, “About a jackass drunk driving and his is one, f*** you! Millions of people are crying right now, shut your fat f****** mouth!”

Ebert has blogged about the criticism he has been receiving. Here are some excerpts from his post:

To begin with, I offer my sympathy to Ryan Dunn’s family and friends, and to those of Zachary Hartwell, who also died in the crash. I mean that sincerely. It is tragic to lose a loved one. I also regret that my tweet about the event was considered cruel. It was not intended as cruel. It was intended as true. I have no way of knowing if Ryan Dunn was drunk at the time of his death…

I don’t know what happened in this case, and I was probably too quick to tweet. That was unseemly. I do know that nobody has any business driving on a public highway at 110 mph, as some estimated — or fast enough, anyway, to leave a highway and fly through 40 yards of trees before crashing. That is especially true if the driver has had three shots and three beers. Two people were killed. What if the car had crashed into another car?