Facebook Ordered To End Its Real Name Policy In Germany

An anonymous reader writes with a blow to Facebook's policy banning accounts under pseudonyms. From the article: "A German privacy regulator ordered Facebook to stop enforcing its real name policy because it violates a German law that gives users the right to use nicknames online. 'We believe the orders are without merit, a waste of German taxpayers' money and we will fight it vigorously,' a Facebook spokeswoman said in an emailed statement."

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Re:Umm no

[MightyMartian]

So why doesn't Facebook just remove any German presence and if Germans want to be on Facebook, they can just use the US version, or perhaps an internationalized version on US servers.

This is the bloody Internet after all. If German courts don't like real name requirements then fuck them and host it elsewhere.