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Facebook Apologizes For, but Doesn’t Retract, Discriminatory ‘Real Name’ Policy

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Facebook sparked outrage with its ‘real name’ policy—which many felt unfairly targeted drag queens and the LGBTQ community. Now the company is apologizing—but not changing.

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“Don’t fuck with drag queens,” San Francisco politico Tom Temprano wrote last month. “Drag queens start riots, drag queens publicly highlight the deficiencies of others for a living, and most importantly drag queens generate more compelling and interactive content than just about any other users on your platform.”

And apparently, drag...

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