Facebook has been cracking down on people who don’t use their real names on their Facebook accounts because of bullying (or possibly because it interferes with their data gathering). This crackdown has had a disproportionate effect on drag queens.
According to the views expressed on their Twitter and Tumblr, RealNamePolice appears to have an ideological interest in disrupting the accounts of whoever they deem to be a “secular sodomite.” But their greater mission is to report any and all accounts with “fake names,” and drag queens and the broader LGBT community made for an natural starting place. “Their names are simply the easiest to spot… [there are] massive amounts of real name violators… They are the ones with the most obvious fake names and hundreds of friends with fake names.”
From the article, it sounds like the Real Name Police are just busybodies with way too much time on their hands who get off on causing hassle for other people. Any number of Federal Bureaucracies… EPA, FDA, TSA … would probably love to hire such motivated people.
The data mining side is far more likely, especially when everyone and their brother is now using Facebook as their logins.
Remember everyone free social media means that your data is for sale.
I knew there was a reason to avoid Facebook! It always struck me that as a lemming magnate.
What ever you do don’t click like on veal, cordon blue, brulee, or twinkies.
http://rt.com/usa/193088-facebook-healthcare-apps-tracking/
Considering Zuck’s exhibitionist sister (and former co-worker) is a big fan of “no online anonymity” and that an early investor of Facebook is a former CIA operative, the only surprise to this story is that it has taken this long for internal and/or external forces to start in on the ‘real name’ crackdown.
The amusing part will come when those who were outraged at the Evil George W. Bush Administration that engaged in warrantless wiretapping and only mildly butthurt at the kind & benevolent Obama Administration doing the same and worse find themselves on the future Orwell-style Master Watch List based on all the information they willingly provided via their own Facebook accounts.