scottywz

Re:Hundreds of Nude Photos Jolt Colorado School on Saturday November 14, 2015 @04:22PM (#10567318)

I had the opposite experience (at Richardson ISD in Texas). I spent my entire senior year being 18, and aside from a few nice teachers who let me sign my own syllabi, they just completely ignored the fact that I was an adult. They made me have my mom sign things and excuse me from class (although to be fair, in this state adults enrolled in K-12 classes are still required by law to attend). I had to get a parent signature in order to get a non-zero grade on a research paper. I even had my choir director tell me that I "don't get a bunch of rights" when I had the gall to ask if I could consent to my own medical care for trips.

I also heard a couple of stories of adult students who didn't live with their parents being tricked into signing "affidavits of residency" that actually took away their rights and gave them a guardian until their graduation. If this is true, then I have no clue how it could possibly be legal. I've found nothing online about that kind of thing.

And all of this while we have a law on the books requiring adult students to exercise parental rights for themselves: http://www.statutes.legis.state.tx.us/Docs/ED/htm/ED.26.htm#...

Re:My name is only real enough to work at Facebook, not to use on the ... on Saturday November 07, 2015 @05:48PM (#10526536)

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/11/facebooks-new-name-pol...

It's also a problem that they immediately shut both the user themselves and their friends out of their account just over the user's name. Even with the changes they're making to reporting, the user's account completely disappears from the site until the "issue" is resolved. People might think something happened to them, and of course the user is still shut off from what may be their only means to communicate with some (or even all) important people in their lives or support groups.

Also, from what I can remember from helping my mom through that process, I don't think you can even export your own data if your account's been flagged. Even if you could, the export process is broken: exporting private messages is broken (a long, 50,000+ message conversation with a close friend doesn't export in full for me, and archived conversations also don't get included), and according to https://www.facebook.com/help/405183566203254, your notes, your own timeline posts, your posts on others' profiles, things you've shared, things you've liked, and your following list are also not included. (Edit: I also just noticed that photos don't export in the highest available resolution, and not all photos even export to begin with.)

Not to mention what happens to your ability to log in to other sites with your Facebook account (I honestly don't know about that one).

Overall, the way they handle real name "violations" is just way too drastic. I'd say they should give a 45- or 60-day warning before shutting off access to the account, and even then still allow the user to export their data (and fix the export process) and/or close the account. They also need to let other users access the suspended profile if the user doesn't choose to close it.