Native Americans say that Facebook is accusing them of having fake names
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[QUOTE]Dana Lone Hill tried logging on to Facebook last Monday only to be locked out because the social media giant believed that she was using a fake name. In [URL="http://lastrealindians.com/facebook-dont-believe-in-indian-names-by-dana-lone-hill/"]an essay over at Last Real Indians[/URL], Dana, who’s Lakota and has been using Facebook since 2007, explains that she’s presented a photo ID, library card and one piece of mail to the company in an attempt to restore her account. The day after Lone Hill’s account was suspended she was able to access it briefly but she was then booted a second time.
Facebook’s 10-year-old real-[URL="https://www.facebook.com/help/112146705538576"]name policy[/URL] stipulates that users “provide the name they use in real life.” However, the social network doesn’t require people to use their [I]legal[/I] names, according to an open letter the company’s chief product officer, Chris Cox, [URL="https://www.facebook.com/chris.cox/posts/10101301777354543"]posted[/URL] last October. In the letter Cox apologizes to ”drag queens, drag kings, transgender [people], and [to the] extensive community of our friends, neighbors and members of the LGBT community” whose accounts had been shut down after a user reported hundreds of them as fake. At press time no such apology has been issued to Natives.[/QUOTE]
[url]http://colorlines.com/archives/2015/02/native_americans_say_facebook_is_accusing_them_of_using_fake_names.html[/url]
Anybody reminded of the Fort Gay, West Virginia Xbox Live incident?
Meanwhile, my Bill Board account with a picture of a polar bear is perfectly fine.
Yet I had fartbucket set as a middle name for like 3 years
Why not just let me use whatever name I want in the first place?
Yeah, Facebook is really kinda shit with this. I have a friend who has the last name "Duck"
Can't use it. Facebook just says "That's not a real name" and asks for a new one. It's pretty awful.
Petiole should be able to use whatever fucking name they want, it's just a way for Facebook to cut down on personal privacy
[QUOTE=Squeegy Mackoy;47111258]Meanwhile...
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I bet that's how it starts with Skynet.
[QUOTE=Mister Sandman;47111794]Why not just let me use whatever name I want in the first place?[/QUOTE]
Mmhm, real name policies are fucking stupid. If I want to go around the internet as Michael McLorryton I have every right to do that.
[QUOTE=TestECull;47112066]Mmhm, real name policies are fucking stupid. If I want to go around the internet as Michael McLorryton I have every right to do that.[/QUOTE]
Criminal.
[QUOTE=isreal?;47112090]Criminal.[/QUOTE]
Wrong. Just someone who doesn't want their real name attached to random internet cesspits.
[QUOTE=wingless;47111802]Yeah, Facebook is really kinda shit with this. I have a friend who has the last name "Duck"
Can't use it. Facebook just says "That's not a real name" and asks for a new one. It's pretty awful.[/QUOTE]
Was he Donald by any chance? :v:
The title sounds so weird, like the news is that native americans are saying something and not that facebook has a bad naming policy.
that's dumb. i will contribute to the pile of non-real names that were never questioned with a dinosaur-based profile named "Roarr Ruarrr" or something along those lines
my google+ name is bob roberts because it wouldn't let me use Un Touch, so people think my name is bob
my ex was a drag queen and they banned him for using a drag name
imagine peoples confusion when they saw a gorgeous woman in their fb feed called pedro
[QUOTE=Untouch;47113202]my google+ name is bob roberts because it wouldn't let me use Un Touch, so people think my name is bob[/QUOTE]
My Google+ name is just Scratch
As google removed their strict name policy, probably a month later facebook instated one
It never accepted my last name either so I made my name literally "Unrecognizeable" (in Czech) and that's fine :downs:
Me and my friend made an "alternate" Facebook. It got approved.
It's a fucking Alien, Facebook.
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[sp]Timmy did nothing wrong[/sp]
Weird... I had my name as Beef Wellington for like a a year or two
Do you think it would be possible to false id?
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It's almost like Facebook is committing suicide.
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Been my facebook for ages.
Why is facebook even enforcing real names? I understand if you use a celebrity name but for other sorts of names, who cares?
i can't see how this system and policy are in any way cost effective. so you have a presumably automated system with a large database of "real" names which is costly to maintain because it takes up rack space and has to be maintained along with facebook, you presumably have to also have a full time person editing the database because of claims like this, so you have expensive rack space, a full time coder to ensure compatability, and someone maintaining the database, and whats the economic benefit of this policy? 90% of the users will use their real name, 9% may use an alias, only 1% will really be fake accounts so really whats the point
[QUOTE=itisjuly;47116363]Why is facebook even enforcing real names? I understand if you use a celebrity name but for other sorts of names, who cares?[/QUOTE]
They want your government name.
[QUOTE=Sableye;47116382]i can't see how this system and policy are in any way cost effective. so you have a presumably automated system with a large database of "real" names which is costly to maintain because it takes up rack space and has to be maintained along with facebook, you presumably have to also have a full time person editing the database because of claims like this, so you have expensive rack space, a full time coder to ensure compatability, and someone maintaining the database, and whats the economic benefit of this policy? 90% of the users will use their real name, 9% may use an alias, only 1% will really be fake accounts so really whats the point[/QUOTE]
Well I doubt it's actually a database of real names, and more just looking to see if the name is in the dictionary, with exceptions for real names that are also in the dictionary (Rose, Chance, that sort of thing). Then some algorithms to weed out obvious gibberish that couldn't possibly be a name, like aaaaaaa or qwertyuiop.
[QUOTE=itisjuly;47116363]Why is facebook even enforcing real names? I understand if you use a celebrity name but for other sorts of names, who cares?[/QUOTE]
To stop trolls and false accounts
Although it's more of a annoyance for people who actually are using them legitmatly, as people can just make a new account with an more legitimate alias and continue shitting up
[QUOTE=GeeOhDee;47116469]They want your government name.[/QUOTE]
They used to, but there was an outcry and now it's 'the name they go by in real life'. A lot of trans people were affected by this policy - they may not have completed a legal name change, but don't want to use the name they were given at birth.
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