While the transgender community threatened to demonstrate in protest against the identification of the social network policy, Facebook has finally agreed to review its rules on the “real” identity of its subscribers.
Up ‘to now, Facebook required its users to register under their real identity:
Facebook is a community where people communicate using their real identity. We ask users to use their real name so everyone knows the identity of the caller. This helps to ensure the safety of our community.
But on Wednesday, the social network has committed to allow its subscribers to use assumed names / pseudonyms, after meeting with representatives of the LGBT community who threatened to protest Thursday in San Francisco to protest against this policy.
Chris Cox, vice president of products for Facebook, released a status on his Facebook page to endorse this decision:
The spirit of our policy that everyone on Facebook uses the name he uses in real life (…) For Sister Roma is Roma sister, Lil Miss Hot Mess is Lil Miss Hot Mess
Publication by Chris Cox.
Facebook is responding to particular users who had decided to leave the social network to its very strict rules about the real identity profiles:
We owe you a better service and better experience using Facebook and we will correct the way this policy is implemented so that all those affected can return and use Facebook as before
Facebook apologizes to the LGBT community
In his post, Chris Cox has also apologized to the LGBT community:
I want to apologize to the community of drag queens, drag kings and transgender people, the vast community of friends and neighbors, and all members of the LGBT community to the problems we’ve inflicted in the treatment of your Facebook accounts in recent weeks
The spokesman center Legal transgender (Transgender Law Center), Mark Snyder, welcomed the statements:
It is clear that Facebook has proved very sorry and willing to find solutions for each of of us can have its own identity online
The practical consequences of this decision are still unclear, still waiting to see the precise conditions which now will shape the creation of Facebook accounts …
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