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Tech companies will never learn. How many times must we go through "real names" idiocies before these supposed geniuses stop being imbeciles
by vanniv 7y ago
Tech companies will never learn.
How many times must we go through "real names" idiocies before these supposed geniuses stop being imbeciles
- minimaxir 7y agoReal name policies are not a good analogy here, as being on Lyft requires in-person interaction.
- vanniv 7y agoWhat does an in-person interaction have to do with the idiocy of building software to decide what names people are allowed to have?
- danso 7y agoI don't think this is really a case of a "real name" policy gone awry. For starters, to be a Lyft driver, you have to supply your driver ID (including your official name). The issue at hand seems to be the names the drivers choose to be visible to users on the app, e.g. "Jon" instead of "Jonathan". If Lyft had a real name policy, they would just force drivers to display their name as it appears on their submitted driver's ID.
- kova12 7y agoUSA despite it's supposed freedom of speech has a long-standing tradition of censoring words