Facebook Wednesday pledged to ease the use of aliases by subscribers, without giving further details at this time. A decision following an outcry especially American transgender community. Explanations.
Facebook – LGBT 0-1: This is an unusual battle that ended with an apology from the giant to the community of “drag queens and kings, transgender, and the largest group of our friends, our neighbors, and members of the LGBT community for their suffering. ” And beyond this community is a much broader issue that is raised: Should Facebook be an exact copy of your life? Can anyone force you to make your digital identity your real identity?
In a message posted by one of his reponsables Wednesday post, Facebook is committed to reviewing its rules on identity “real,” working on new tools that “each of us can have its own identity online,” opening the door to the use of aliases, nicknames. At the root of this decision: a mishap for many in the American and especially transsexual LGBT community
Facebook requires the use of his “true identity”
. Suite-it seems to an alert indicating that the account was a fake, “ I was automatically disconnected and my account was suspended because I did not use my real name “, has explained Sister Roma, famous personalities of the LGBT community in the United States, to Daily Dot. “ I was forced to change my name to my real name, ‘as it appears on your driver’s license or credit card ‘,” she adds.
Indeed, if your account is reported as fake, Facebook will now demand proof of identity. The terms of the social network are clear, the network states in its parameters: “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 his. interlocutor. This helps to ensure the safety of our community. ” And a little further: “The name you use should be your real name as it appears on your credit card, your driver’s license or student card.” It would be saying that Facebook is committed to change?
mobilization of the LGBT community
For the LGBT community in the United States, the beginning of the problem dates back to around the 10th of September. Internet users begin to report that Facebook asked to prove their identity. This is the case for Sister Roma, 13,000 followers on Twitter. She writes: “The political change Facebook is not cool I decided what my REAL name, thank you.”:
Then the next day, she adds: “Dear Facebook, forcing the drag queen and those who do not belong to any kind to use their real name is discriminatory “:
Before proposing his own identity a little piece revisited:
C ‘ is the beginning of the mobilization against the application of the social network to prove his identity. This thing happened to several users, “they got me too” says, for example this one:
A #MyNameIs hashtag is created and several petitions to denounce this policy of Facebook deemed ” unfair and discriminatory “:
” An impact on our already vulnerable community “
In a letter filed Wednesday in Facebook (read here), a group of a hundred associations responsible for the mobilization request to Facebook to change its policy and is explained. “Demand for Facebook to provide proof of identity for” real name “of each is unfair and disproportionnnée and has an impact on our community already vulnerable,” the authors explain. “This policy leads to abuse, some people use this tool to target and harass our commuautés with intent to delete our accounts”
The class then recites several facts, widening the question. Transsexuals are often unable to change their names in real life, ask them to provide proof of identification can lead to “humiliation”; some need to bear the name they wear on stage when artists online; immigrants may have trouble producing identification documents; some may use pseudonyms to avoid persecution; some people may use a different name for religious issues; not to mention the case of teachers, psychiatrists, social workers or judges may prefer ENTERING AND USING another name. In short, everyone is concerned. We also asked ourselves recently on the Facebook account of France Info.
This community therefore calls on Facebook to review its policy, in particular with regard to having to show an ID . They also want the ability to be able to call an alert page.
Facebook promises better tools for “Sister Romas worldwide”
In response to the mobilization, Facebook has been forced to react, while a manifestation was scheduled in San Francisco on Thursday, close to the headquarters of the social network. Following a meeting with Facebook officials, representatives of these minorities have claimed to have found an acceptable solution.
“ The way it happened caught us off free “, an official said Wednesday social network, Chris Cox, on his Facebook page. He said the problem was following a report: “ Someone decided to report as false hundreds of Facebook accounts”, “who found themselves among the hundreds of thousands of reports every week counts as false 99% of them being malicious people: identity, intimidation, violence, fraud, etc … “” The process of Facebook , said the theft charge, is then to ask the accounts reported to justify identification showing the name used for the “. “ We do this for 10 years, and until recently it worked ,” said Chris Cox
The head of Facebook adds. “ c ‘ is what has made his Facebook feature from the start by différanciant the rest of the web where pseudonyms, anonymity is the rule “, adding that it helps to protect users. He argues that stories of identity theft or violence of any kind are “ often the result of people hiding behind false names .”
But “ our policy was never to ask everyone to use his real name. spirit of our policy is that everyone uses the name he uses in real Life , “says Facebook.
” For Sister Roma is Roma sister, Lil Miss Hot Mess is Lil Miss Hot Mess “Has he said referring to the stage names of drag queens. While Facebook promises to build better tools to authenticate “ Sister Romas worldwide ” but without opening Facebook to bad people.
On his Facebook page, Sister Roma, forced to wear it now his real name, and responds in particular, that Facebook has understood “ they need to change their definition of a “real” name, and find a new way to identifer a person “. These Facebook ads “ is a giant step ,” she adds, “ but it is not finished “, “ we must continue to work with them to everyone, not just the LGBT community, has the right to use the true identity that suits them and protects . “
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