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If facebook becomes aware that John Crito is not my real name, they would ban me or make me change it. They would only "tolerate" that fake name for as long as
by Crito 12y ago
If facebook becomes aware that John Crito is not my real name, they would ban me or make me change it. They would only "tolerate" that fake name for as long as they did not know it was fake.
They ban names like Laughing Critter, despite being real names, because they incorrectly believe that they are fake names.
They're not working with perfect information here. Their strategies have false positive and false negative rates, which they seemingly consider acceptable (hence the outrage. If you can make facebook reevaluate the cost of a false positive (by associating those false positives with outrage), then you may be able to influence facebooks behavior).