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The Single Vigilante Behind Facebook's 'Real Name' Crackdown
Molly McHugh sends this story from Daily Dot:
When Facebook issued an apology this week for suspending user accounts that had what it alleged to be fake names, it pinned the whole debacle on one person. This "individual," Facebook reasoned, sewed confusion into its flawed reporting system—intended to protect against bullying and online abuse. Facebook Chief Product Officer Chris Cox explains that Facebook was caught “off guard” by a lone actor who reported “several hundred” accounts as fake. According to our source, who claims to have spent "hours and hours" systematically reporting Facebook users from the drag community and beyond, thousands of accounts were suspended—and they've been at it for weeks. ... Given the timing and the accounts suspended, they believe that they are in fact the mystery "individual" who threw a wrench into Facebook's system, noted in Facebook's explanation of the events. "Considering the hours and hours I spent reporting accounts over the course of the past month, it is likely that I am."
Sometimes that metric is correct. Sometimes government policy and the views of society are corrupt or evil and would strongly disapprove of various good deeds. See:
Underground Railroad
Hidden Children In France During the Holocaust*
Tour de France champ saved Jews in WWII
Sadly such measures may be needed again in the future to save Jews in Europe.
Antisemitism on rise across Europe 'in worst times since the Nazis'
Europe's Alarming New Anti-Semitism
much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot - George Orwell