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Months ago, the controversy over real names on Facebook user accounts ended with a great victory for LGBT groups. However, seven months later, the controversy around “artistic identities” on this social network is far from over. Thus, with the broader user base appeased after the adjustment made in October last year, the social network's practice of requiring its members to use their "real" names continues to bring disproportionately negative consequences for the LGBT community, he said. meet The Daily Dot. Now, a group of frustrated Facebook users – a diverse group made up of drag queens and other performers, transgender people, immigrants, [and] survivors of domestic violence – have coalesced around the hashtag #MyNameIs, with which They plan to hold a live protest against the social network's policy, at the same Facebook headquarters (Menlo Park) on June 1, the first day of LGBT pride month. “We're really pushing for Facebook to remove the option to report False Names,” says activist and drag queen Sister Roma.

Suspending an account for using a “fake” name punishes identity, not behavior.” For months, LGBT groups have been waging a battle against Facebook, in particular against the “This Special Database timeline is using a fake name” option, in which a user can select from its menu to report specific malicious accounts, an option that was used on last year to strip several artists such as Cherry and Sister Roma of their accounts, arguing that they were blocked by the social network because it did not recognize the name they used as “real.” After several protests, Facebook product manager Chris Cox issued a public apology in October 2014, addressed to “the community of drag queens, drag kings, transgender people, and friends, neighbors and members of the LGBT community,” for the inconvenience caused by this social network policy. “This has been the policy we have used for 10 years, and so far, it has worked well in its mission of creating a safe community without harming any group, as has happened this time,” Cox said then.



However even though the accounts were restored, the option to report false identities remains in force and with it the threat “for millions of users with authentic chosen identities that cannot be proven by a piece of paper,” says calls Facebook's change of heart a hoax, saying that while the company claims to have adjusted its policy, the changes are superficial and the system is still open to abuse by intolerant users. Meanwhile, Facebook claims that its reforms now include a seven-day grace period, in which the reported profile owner can continue to access their account, while verifying the authenticity of the name under which they appear on the social network. . A measure that does not leave happy the users who run the greatest risk of being affected. “Many of us, especially trans men and women, do not have any government-issued identification that reflects our authentic identity. (…) Our community is disappearing from Facebook and they are letting it happen,” says the description that appears in the petition made by Sister Roma and Lil Miss Hot Mess, who have already collected more than 2 thousand signatures to prevent Facebook from participating. in the upcoming LGBT pride parades in New York and San Francisco.
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