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"Facebook with its "real name" policy makes itself the arbiter of other people's selves. Under pressure from cross-dressers, Facebook said it would relax the "
by killerpopiller 11y ago
"Facebook with its "real name" policy makes itself the arbiter of other people's selves.
Under pressure from cross-dressers, Facebook said it would relax the "real name" policy and allow people to use aliases, but only if they are generally known by those aliases.
However, reportedly Facebook has not really changed the policy.
Even if Facebook makes this change, it will be unacceptable because companies and the state will be able to connect the account with your real identity. In order for the site not to mistreat people, it must let you have one account to show your boss and your parents, another for your friends, and others for various kinds of political activism"
https://stallman.org/facebook.html#realname https://stallman.org/facebook.html#realname
Also, real names allows US gov and other non-democratic regimes to identify people and their personal networks and go after them.
- titanomachy 11y agoIf you need to say something in the public domain that can't be traced back to your own identity, don't say it on Facebook. The entire point of Facebook is that there is an easily identified one-to-one correspondence between your Facebook contacts and people in the real world. If people are allowed to become effectively anonymous then it fundamentally changes this experience.
- MichaelCrawford 11y agoWhile not strictly required Facebook is persistent in trying to obtain my mobile phone number. I'm cool with facebook knowing my mail and my real name but there are some people that I don't want to hear from on the phone. Were they to email me I would just mark them as spam. Also if facebook knows my number then it can follow me whereever I go, or rather, whereever I go while my phone is powered on.