The Wall Street Journal Facebook versus Drag Queens from Brazil The queen of party drag queen Tchaka WhatsApp 11 9 91327750

http://tchaka.com.br/

WhatsApp 11 9 91327750

Instagram @TchakaDragQueen

Rainha das Festas Tchaka na capa do maior jornal de Nova York, "THE WALL STREET JOURNAL", ilustro matéria sobre a polêmica envolvendo a discriminação praticada pelo Facebook X Drag Queens.
Quero meu direito de usar o tal "Nome Social" da forma que eu me sentir confortável.
‪#‎RainhaTchaka‬

Obs: Pratique seu inglês e boa leitura:
http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2014/09/12/facebook-versus-the-sisters-of-perpetual-indulgence/

Facebook has bumped up against the National Security Agency, tussled with privacy advocates and competed head-on with Google. But in its latest fight, it may finally have met its match: drag queens.

Recently, the social network took aim at performers who use stage names instead of legal names in their Facebook profiles, forcing them to use their real identities.

The move didn’t go over well with people like Sister Roma, a member of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, a San Francisco drag troupe. According to Sister Roma’s page, Facebook forced her to use the name Michael Williams.

It was an indignity on the scale of making Lady Gaga to go by Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta.

Unlike other social media platforms such as Twitter and Snapchat, Facebook requires members to use their real identities.

Facebook’s policy has come under fire before, notably when it has deleted pages of dissident political activists because they used pseudonyms. Some activists say Facebook has put dissidents in danger by pushing them to reveal their identities.

“If people want to use an alternative name on Facebook, they have several different options available to them, including providing an alias under their name on their profile, or creating a Page specifically for that alternative persona,” a Facebook spokesperson wrote in an email.

For Sister Roma, that wouldn’t solve the problem. “I use this site to keep up with friends and simply don’t want employers or crazy stalker people to log on and search me,” Sister Roma told Sfist.com, which wrote about Facebook’s crackdown.

One of the wonderful and simultaneously maddening rules about the internet is that things are often not what they seem and people are often not who they say they are. But Facebook’s quest to upend that reality isn’t only about openness and transparency. It’s also about business.

Facebook’s advertising product, which will bring in an estimated $12 billion in revenue this year, rests almost solely on its ability to gather detailed, accurate information about users.

Maintaining the quality of that data is an ongoing struggle for Facebook, which says about 11.2% of its 1.32 billion user profiles actually represent alternate identities, misclassified accounts or fake accounts used for spamming.

If Facebook had its way, everyone would use their real identity, and performers with pseudonyms would create “Fan Pages” for their stage names.

But that isn’t how many people in the drag community prefer to use Facebook, and they have countered the crackdown with a movement that’s spreading rapidly  through cyberspace.

“I detest the idea of having a fan page. I’m not fucking Britney Spears. I have friends, not fans,” Sister Roma told Sfist.com.

“F*** you Facebook!” wrote one performer named Heklina on her Facebook page. “If you weren’t so important as a marketing tool I would quit you. You made me change my name.”

It seems, though, that even Lady Gaga has run into the issue. A search for “Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta” on Facebook brings up Lady Gaga’s fan page with 67 million likes and a notice that says her real name “was merged with this page.”

______________________________________________________