Here we go again

[supergee]

A social network cannot enforce a Real Names policy consistently because nobody wants to sign up for a virtual police state. One big reason Google + lost to Facebook is that it pretended harder. Not of course leaving well enough alone, Facebook has decided to make its own pretense a teense more convincing by picking on targets of opportunity: people whose Facebook names don't match the gender they're supposed to be. (Bad laws are always enforced against the most obviously defenseless.) Queerty has the story.

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[marahmarie]

So what happens if your Facebook name doesn't even have a gender? Because it's just, I don't know, hmmmm....made up of nonsense words? It will be interesting to find out, that's for sure.