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Facebook At Odds With LGBT Community Over Real Usernames

  • Gigaom, Monday, September 15, 2014 11:19 AM
In line with its long held membership policies, Facebook has reportedly been forcing gay and transgender users to use their legal names rather than their online personas or chosen names. “Not that long ago, it looked as though Facebook might be softening its previous stance on real names,” GigaOm reports. Yet “some gay and transgender users say the site is forcing them to use their birth names or have their pages blocked.”
 

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