Cox> Our policy has never been to require everyone on Facebook to use their legal name. The spirit of our policy is that everyone on Facebook uses the authentic

Cox> Our policy has never been to require everyone on Facebook to use their legal name. The spirit of our policy is that everyone on Facebook uses the authentic name they use in real life. The current problem is Facebook's assumption that people have one "authentic name they use in real life". Real people may choose to be known by various names in various contexts, without intent to defraud or to be a "bad actor". They may or may not want those names to be connected among the different contexts. Facebook has hundreds of millions of users, but apparently is not yet able to realize that the simple policies that worked well for small homogenous populations (US college students) do not scale to to huge heterogenous populations (the rest of the planet). Facebook, allow users to be known by whatever various multiple names the users like. Allow them to connect those names, or keep them separate. Put whatever measures in place you need to to support that (perhaps a per-user waiting period that doubles with each additional active name or profile, or allow people to register names or profiles for a small fee, perhaps ~US$5 or $10 times number of names per person.) Expect some gaming of the system, and come down hard on bad actors and abusers, perhaps using a names registration fee to make dealing with bad actors costly for bad actors, profitable and easier for Facebook, and not a complete pain for people who are false positives or troll targets. Imagine the revenues when millions of gamers want to register their in-game(s) persona name(s). This has worked well for domain registrars, what are you waiting for?