Re:Germany orders changes to Facebook real name policy
by darklajid on Tuesday December 18, 2012 @11:45AM
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I - fail to follow.
You don't see a reason to enforce the real name policy, but are opposed to a ruling/request to be explicit about that?
Censorship is always a tough subject. For one, because I actually think that 'free speech' in the US sense doesn't apply locally (there are quite some things you cannot state/show/do and I tend to like that. But I wouldn't consider myself pro-censorship. On the contrary, even).
Ignoring that: Why is 'blocking German users from using the service' censorship and evil, but 'blocking everyone from using a name that they'd like to use, potentially locking/deleting their account after requesting people to hand out official, government provided IDs to a random company on the internet' not censorship?
For me? Same thing. In both cases it's the company that acts and blocks/"censors" a number of potential users.
You don't see a reason to enforce the real name policy, but are opposed to a ruling/request to be explicit about that?
Censorship is always a tough subject. For one, because I actually think that 'free speech' in the US sense doesn't apply locally (there are quite some things you cannot state/show/do and I tend to like that. But I wouldn't consider myself pro-censorship. On the contrary, even).
Ignoring that: Why is 'blocking German users from using the service' censorship and evil, but 'blocking everyone from using a name that they'd like to use, potentially locking/deleting their account after requesting people to hand out official, government provided IDs to a random company on the internet' not censorship?
For me? Same thing. In both cases it's the company that acts and blocks/"censors" a number of potential users.