people will just sign up with throwaway email addresses and, possibly, use Tor.
But what if real name was forced, like on facebook or google? There's plenty of precedent now if a judge wanted to declare that as a minimum amount of due diligence.
I can't comment at the Chicago Tribune without telling them who I went to high school with (through facebook comments.)
But what if real name was forced, like on facebook
Facebook doesn't force real names in practice, I know a bunch of people who have Facebook pages under non-real names and a bunch of joke ones, ones for dogs, one for a trash can. Really, Facebook doesn't seem to care to enforce these.
How realistic is that? Neither facebook nor google require a photo id\birth certificate so real name is vaguely plausible name + we will kick you off if we find out you lied. Not exactly something that I would present to a judge as evidence.
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But what if real name was forced, like on facebook or google? There's plenty of precedent now if a judge wanted to declare that as a minimum amount of due diligence.
I can't comment at the Chicago Tribune without telling them who I went to high school with (through facebook comments.)
Facebook doesn't force real names in practice, I know a bunch of people who have Facebook pages under non-real names and a bunch of joke ones, ones for dogs, one for a trash can. Really, Facebook doesn't seem to care to enforce these.
Facebook doesn't force real names. But they do sometimes force you to use a fake name.
If your real name is Ben Dover or Mike Hunt, or Mike Michaels-Michaelson, then you might have to use a fake name.
And yet this happened a couple of years ago: http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/salman-rus...
How realistic is that? Neither facebook nor google require a photo id\birth certificate so real name is vaguely plausible name + we will kick you off if we find out you lied. Not exactly something that I would present to a judge as evidence.
Sometimes, Facebook does require a driver's license or Government-issued ID:
It's happened several times over the past few years. That's the most recent occurrence.