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Facebook bug disables women's accounts, asks for government ID, fix in process

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Re: Facebook bug disables women's accounts, asks for government ID, fix in process

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As someone who remembers BBSes and Usenet flamewars, I can't emphasize enough how bad an idea it is to have your real identity linked to everything you do.

It also makes it very difficult if you ever need to go on the lam, because they'll know every place you might go. Every friend and relative. Whether you're trying to avoid a gambling debt, a stalker, or the government.

Re: Facebook bug disables women's accounts, asks for government ID, fix in process

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only women were affected. Facebook's got several anti-woman policies (for example banning pictures of breast-feeding, and prohibiting domestic violence survivors from using pseudonyms) but in this case they're blaming a bug. it would be it would be interesting to hear more about what the actual issue is.

I frequently get friend requests from fake profiles on Facebook (sometimes as many as 2-3 per week). They always list themselves as having gone to my high school (which is why I am positive they are fake, since I went to a tiny high school), and they always are attractive-looking women. I do not list my sex on Facebook, but it is possible that the bot recognizes my first name as male and therefore friends me with a f…

a spam detector that's biased against women certainly could account for this behavior.

why don't you see that as sexist?

Re: Facebook bug disables women's accounts, asks for government ID, fix in process

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

oh look, once again i mentioned gender and got downvoted. funny how that works.

You didn't get downvoted for mentioning gender. You got downvoted for strawmans.

i didn't propose any explanations why i got downvoted, just observed the pattern.

it sounds like you're saying that any time i mention gender, people see it as a strawman, and so downvote it. why do you think that is?

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