Fb Responds to Protest Over Actual-Identify Coverage

Fb’s headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif., was the location of a protest Monday over the social community’s failure to resolve issues with its real-name policy, regardless of promises to do so final yr.

A gaggle that calls itself The #MyNameIs Campaign was behind the protest, and Mashable and Re/code individually reported that protesters included members of the LGBT (lesbian, homosexual, bisexual and transgender) group (together with drag queens, burlesque performers and transgender individuals), in addition to Native Americans and victims of domestic violence.

The protestors object to Fb’s actual-identify coverage, which requires customers to make use of solely the authorized names on their start certificates, for quite a few causes, together with individuals who not go by their actual names, people who find themselves recognized solely by their stage names and customers making an attempt to cover from stalkers and different abusers.

One of many leaders of the protest, drag queen Sister Roma of drag group The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, advised Re/code:

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