Facebook looked like a tough nut to crack in the controversy several weeks ago has with several drag queens , who fight for power use his stage name in the network and not contained in identity documents, such as this requires. However, appears that the company founded by Mark Zuckerberg has finally given .
In recent months personal profiles of artists like Cherry SurBete and Sister Roma were blocked by social network , which argued that it did not recognize the name used as “real”. One of them, the second, did not regain access to your account until you agreed to use his birth name, Michael Williams.
However, the product manager of Facebook, Chris Cox, yesterday issued from his profile of the social network a public apology, addressed to “the community of drag queens , drag kings , transgender and friends, neighbors and members of the LGBT community.” Cox has approached them to ask forgiveness for the trouble he has put them through their Facebook accounts in weeks .
“This has been the policy we have used for ten years, and so far, has been successful in its mission of creating a safe community without harming any group, as if has happened this time, “he admits.
were allegations of” one individual “
The chief product of the social network has apologized explaining that blocking these Facebook profiles due to allegations of” an individual “ which was dedicated to accounts report drag queens as false. “Every week we processed several hundred complaints of this kind as the encroachment, the bullying , the trolling , domestic violence or verbal attacks, and we failed to differentiate this case, “he assured.
But, until the declaration of Cox, the official position of Facebook has been to publicly defend his actions and his politics real name , which has generated, as his team “a safer environment on the platform.” “ Anyone who wants to use an alternate name in Facebook has different ways to do as an alias in brackets include your user name in Facebook and create a page for that alternative personality,” he said from the social network BBC this month.
The Cox himself explained in a statement of apology to the process that is followed when an account is denounced by false identity is require the holder to show some kind of identification , as a fitness card or a library or a letter stating that this is his real name.
¿real names or real names?
According to the bill of rights and responsibilities that Facebook provides to its users, opening a profile on the social network, “ they must provide their real name and information “. “We need your help to keep it that way,” says the platform in its legislation, which also prohibits Internet to provide false personal information on Facebook.
But Cox says the policy the social network has never been to require users to use their “legal” name. “ The spirit of our policy is that everyone on Facebook uses the same name used in real life . For Sister Roma, that name would be Sister Roma “says
Cox ends his letter. Explaining that, even if you think this is the policy that Facebook must maintain, because it is the one that has managed to differentiate it from the Internet pseudonymous anonymous where false identities are the norm, it does have clear that there is still much room for improvement in the mechanisms of control and surveillance of it .
In the shade, suspicion from whom also associate this insistence that Facebook users use their real names to the policy of “ marketing based on people ” that the social network will begin offering hereinafter its advertisers.
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