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Facebook now requires admins of groups deemed to be using hateful or offensive speech to publicly identify themselves. Anyone familiar with the history of Usen
by vezzy-fnord 12y ago
Facebook now requires admins of groups deemed to be using hateful or offensive speech to publicly identify themselves.
Anyone familiar with the history of Usenet will know that real name policies aren't an effective approach.
- arbitrage 12y agoConsidering that there was no real name verification built into USENET at all, and no central authority, this is not an apt analogy.
- emotionalcode 12y agoThreatening reprecussion also doesn't stop prejudice, discrimination, or harassment - it just makes it happen behind closed doors or within closed minds. It's the cultural shift of ethics and values that changes things. That's something people have to learn for themselves though, through the experience of changing, and the only person that can judge whether that change results in positives, benefits or gains, (or just something outside of what they currently experience) for the individual is the individual themselves.