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Facebook is starting to enforce a "real names" policy. They are targeting performers whose profiles were opened under stage names and trying to force them to change their names to their legal names.
Here's a story about what they're doing to the drag queen community:
http://www.queerty.com/facebook-targeting-drag-queens-forcing-them-to-use-their-legal-names-20140911
Here's a petition people are signing to demand they abandon this action:
http://www.change.org/p/facebook-al...-their-stage-names-on-their-facebook-accounts
Ironically, Google has been trying for a couple of years to enforce a similar policy, and a couple of months ago they finally announced that they have abandoned it:
http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_t...s_ineffective_dangerous_real_name_policy.html
Here's a story about what they're doing to the drag queen community:
http://www.queerty.com/facebook-targeting-drag-queens-forcing-them-to-use-their-legal-names-20140911
Here's a petition people are signing to demand they abandon this action:
http://www.change.org/p/facebook-al...-their-stage-names-on-their-facebook-accounts
Ironically, Google has been trying for a couple of years to enforce a similar policy, and a couple of months ago they finally announced that they have abandoned it:
http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_t...s_ineffective_dangerous_real_name_policy.html