Facebook Apologizes To Drag Queens Over "Real Name" Rule

An anonymous reader writes Facebook apologized to drag queens and the LGBT community after an outcry over the social network's policy of requiring members to use real names on their accounts. While the policy itself will stay in place, Facebook says, it will be changing how the rule is enforced. In a Wednesday post, Facebook's Chief Product Officer Chris Cox apologized to "the affected community of drag queens, drag kings, transgender, and extensive community of our friends, neighbors, and members of the LGBT community for the hardship that we've put you through in dealing with your Facebook accounts over the past few weeks."

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Re:What real name policy?

[Anonymous Coward]

Spotify and Answers.com used to have Facebook as the only login, and commenting on Huffington Post still does.

And nothing of value was lost.

If I ever hit a website which required Facebook for authentication, I'd promptly conclude the website authors are morons, douchebags, idiots, and not worth my time,

Fuck Zuckernuts.

He's a complete useless doucehbag, and Facebook is a terrible fucking company.

I look forward to the day I see a news headline that says Zuckerfuck has been mauled by bears.

catering to the mentally ill

[slashmydots]

Seriously, that's all they're doing. Someone who wants to put on the opposite gender's clothing, make up a fake name, and act like a giant stereotype of that gender with a fake name and made up personality needs mental help, not bent Facebook rules. Did you know that every study ever has found that 80-90% of drag queen, transsexuals, etc were abused as children?