"Help, I'm Trapped in Facebook's Absurd Pseudonym Prugatory"
http://www.wired.com/2015/06/facebook-real-name-policy-problems/
"TWO WEEKS AGO, Facebook locked me out of my profile. My photos
and friends are gone, my profile vanished without a trace.
Someone reported my account as pseudonymous, and Facebook kicked
me out. To get back in, I must provide various forms of
identification proving the authenticity of my username. I'm not
going to. I am one of many casualties of Facebook's recently
rejiggered "authentic name" policy, wherein anonymous users can
report a name as fake and trigger a verification process. Part
of the motivation is stopping the proliferation of celebrity
imposter accounts and profiles made for pets. But it's also
allowed Facebook to shutter the accounts of real people, based
on "authenticity." What does "authentic" mean, though? It's
both confusing and contextual, because identity itself is
confusing and contextual."
- - -
Yet another difference with Google. When they realized that the entire
"real name" paradigm just didn't work out well for users in Google+,
Google actually learned from this and moved beyond it to an open
naming model. In contrast, Facebook just keeps repeating its own
mistakes again, and again, and again ...
--Lauren--
Lauren Weinstein ([email protected]): http://www.vortex.com/lauren
Founder:
- Network Neutrality Squad: http://www.nnsquad.org
- PRIVACY Forum: http://www.vortex.com/privacy-info
Co-Founder: People For Internet Responsibility: http://www.pfir.org/pfir-info
Member: ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy
Lauren's Blog: http://lauren.vortex.com
Google+: http://google.com/+LaurenWeinstein
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