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Beneath the tuition-hike debate set to play out at Wednesday's UC Regents meeting in San Francisco is a palpable tension between state government and a public university that historically has operated with relative autonomy and which has grown increasingly reliant on tuition and other private funding, rather than state subsidies, to pay its bills. \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/education/ci_26964703/uc-tuition-hike-debate-reveals-struggle-over-university\" target=\"_blank\">Full story\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/If-UC-managed-its-endowment-better-it-could-skip-5902321.php\" target=\"_blank\">If UC managed its endowment better, it could skip tuition increases\u003c/a> (San Francisco Chronicle):\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>In the hopes of picking up another $100 million per year, the UC Regents are meeting this week to discuss UC President Janet Napolitano’s recommendation that tuition be increased by 5 percent a year over the next five years. ... What the regents don’t want us to focus on is that there might never have been a need to increase tuition three-fold since 2002. Had they simply taken a page from Yale Endowment guru David Swensen’s book, UC might not have had to raise tuition at all. \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/If-UC-managed-its-endowment-better-it-could-skip-5902321.php\" target=\"_blank\">Full story\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/business/ci_26964136/facebook-shuttle-drivers-vote-union\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook shuttle drivers voting on union\u003c/a> (San Jose Mercury News):\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>In what could be a precedent-setting victory for the modestly paid service-industry workers who help keep the Silicon Valley economy humming, shuttle bus drivers who take Facebook employees to and from work will vote Wednesday on whether to unionize, hoping success at the poll will lead to others joining what they say is a campaign for better pay and working conditions. \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/business/ci_26964136/facebook-shuttle-drivers-vote-union\" target=\"_blank\">Full story\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://insidescoopsf.sfgate.com/blog/2014/11/19/yank-sing-workers-get-4-million-settlement/\" target=\"_blank\">Workers at San Francisco's Yank Sing restaurant get $4 million wage settlement\u003c/a> (SFGate's Inside Scoop blog):\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>At a time where restaurant labor practices are the subject of continued discussion and debate, one of San Francisco’s most popular restaurants has paid a massive labor settlement to its workers. Today, Yank Sing announced that it has reached a $4 million dollar backpay and benefits settlement for 280 affected current and former employees. Between its two locations, Yank Sing currently employs 90 full-time staffers (30 hours or more per week) and 60 part-time staffers. 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Investigations and audits, spurred by complaints from dozens of employees — mainly Chinese immigrants who spoke little English — revealed numerous violations of state wage-and-hour laws at their restaurant in the heart of San Francisco's financial district and a smaller location six blocks away. \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-restaurant-wage-theft-20141119-story.html#page=1\" target=\"_blank\">Full story\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://sfist.com/2014/11/18/mirkarimi_will_face_challenge_by_on.php\" target=\"_blank\">Mirkarimi Will\u003cbr>\nFace Challenge By One-Time Acting Sheriff Vicki Hennessy in 2015\u003c/a> (SFist):\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>It looks like Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi will once again have to defend himself against some three-year-old allegations of domestic violence as he attempts a re-election bid next year. 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It wasn’t long before he volunteered for “The Hub,” the party’s core organizers who map out routes and drum up ideas for themes. ... But there’s been recent murmurs that Tate’s moving to suck the soul out of Bike Party, to quell the chaos that drew him to the event in the first place. \u003ca href=\"http://www.sanjoseinside.com/2014/11/19/san-jose-bike-party-incorporates-to-pursue-nonprofit-status/\" target=\"_blank\">Full story\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.si.com/nba/2014/11/19/jason-collins-retirement-nba\" target=\"_blank\">Former Stanford star Jason Collins announces retirement from NBA:\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>It has been 18 exhilarating months since I came out in Sports Illustrated as the first openly gay man in one of the four major professional team sports. And it has been nine months since I signed with the Nets and became the first openly gay male athlete to appear in a game in one of those leagues. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/BarbaraOrtutay\" target=\"_blank\">Barbara Ortutay\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nAssociated Press Technology Writer\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_147953\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/RS12064_photo.JPG-alt_147.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-147953\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/RS12064_photo.JPG-alt_147-640x480.jpg\" alt=\"San Francisco drag queen Sister Roma was one of those who led the challenge against Facebook's 'real names' policy. (Isabel Angell/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/RS12064_photo.JPG-alt_147-640x480.jpg 640w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/RS12064_photo.JPG-alt_147-1028x771.jpg 1028w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/RS12064_photo.JPG-alt_147-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco drag queen Sister Roma was one of those who led the challenge against Facebook's real-names policy. (Isabel Angell/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Facebook is apologizing to drag queens and the transgender community for deleting accounts that used drag names like Lil Miss Hot Mess rather than legal names such as Bob Smith.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The world's biggest online social network caught heat recently when it deleted several hundred accounts belonging to self-described drag queens, other performers and members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community. Facebook has long required its users to go by their \"real names\" on the site for security purposes, to stand out from other social networks and so it can better target advertising to people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"RLVCKo4ZuZuy7vJL9xppfBiKTDqTh2Sf\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now the company says the spirit of its policy doesn't mean a person's legal name but \"the authentic name they use in real life. For Sister Roma, that's Sister Roma. For Lil Miss Hot Mess, that's Lil Miss Hot Mess,\" Chris Cox, Facebook's vice president of product \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/chris.cox/posts/10101301777354543\" target=\"_blank\">wrote in a blog post Wednesday\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(\u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/roma.roma\" target=\"_blank\">Sister Roma\u003c/a> is a member of San Francisco's \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/SFSisters\" target=\"_blank\">Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence\u003c/a>, a combination gender-issues action group and guerrilla performance troupe. The Sisters were among those who argued that being forced to use \"real names\" could lead to harassment of a wide variety of vulnerable people, including transgender, gay and lesbian Facebook users as well as survivors of domestic violence and unauthorized immigrants.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though the real-names policy isn't changing, Cox said, the way Facebook enforces it might.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last month, the company suggested that performers such as drag queens have other ways of maintaining their stage identities on the site, such as creating pages that are meant for businesses and public figures. But a fan page is not the same as a regular Facebook account and users were not happy with the suggestion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While standing by the real-names policy on Wednesday, Cox said \"we see through this event that there's lots of room for improvement in the reporting and enforcement mechanisms, tools for understanding who's real and who's not, and the customer service for anyone who's affected.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cox also gave some background on why so many accounts with drag names and other stage names suddenly started getting deleted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"An individual on Facebook decided to report several hundred of these accounts as fake,\" he wrote. \"These reports were among the several hundred thousand fake name reports we process every single week, 99 percent of which are bad actors doing bad things: impersonation, bullying, trolling, domestic violence, scams, hate speech, and more — so we didn't notice the pattern.\"\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By Jon Brooks, Isabel Angell and Bay City News\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_147953\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/RS12064_photo.JPG-alt_147.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-147953\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/RS12064_photo.JPG-alt_147-640x480.jpg\" alt=\"Drag queen Sister Roma says Facebook should change its policy that bans profiles with fake names. (Isabel Angell/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/RS12064_photo.JPG-alt_147-640x480.jpg 640w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/RS12064_photo.JPG-alt_147-1028x771.jpg 1028w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/RS12064_photo.JPG-alt_147-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Drag queen Sister Roma says Facebook should change its policy that bans profiles with fake names. (Isabel Angell/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update Wednesday 5 p.m\u003c/strong>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A Facebook official says the company will temporarily reactivate hundreds of LGBT user profiles that had been deactivated for using fake names for a grace period of two weeks. The announcement comes after several popular drag queens and transgender activists met with Facebook officials Tuesday afternoon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week, hundreds of people were locked out of their profiles for using fake names-- like a drag queen stage name.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A Facebook spokesman said the company requires people to use their real name to promote accountability, but drag queen Sister Roma says that \u003cem>is\u003c/em> her real name.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If you ask anybody who I am in and out of drag, my name is Roma. So currently my profile says Michael Williams next to this gorgeous picture of me, and it doesn't make sense,\" she said. \"People don't look for Michael Williams, and it's not who I am.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco Supervisor David Campos --who also went to the meeting-- said fake names can protect people who are transgender, bullied, or escaping domestic abuse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(Original Post)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Facebook spokesman said company employees does not actively search for fake names-- they rely on other users to flag profiles. He said at the end of two weeks, people with reactivated profiles must go by their real name, or create a fan \"page\" with their fake name.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Facebook officials have agreed to meet with local drag queens at San Francisco City Hall to discuss its policy of requiring legal names on accounts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Friday, San Francisco Supervisor David Campos called on the company to meet with those drag queens who reported in recent weeks they were locked out of their accounts under their stage names. The drag queens said they could regain access to their accounts only if they listed their legal names, such as one on a driver's license or credit card.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Facebook accepted the invitation from Campos on Monday after a group of drag queens and supporters threatened to hold a protest at the company's Menlo Park headquarters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I am glad that Facebook has accepted our invitation to engage in a meaningful public dialogue with the drag queens and members of the transgender community who have been affected by the profile name policy,\" Campos said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a post on her\u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/roma.roma\" target=\"_blank\"> Facebook account\u003c/a>, Sister Roma of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence said the meeting is scheduled for Wednesday, when she will join other drag queens to discuss the issue with Facebook representatives. Sister Roma, who was one of many drag queens locked out of her account, now uses her legal name, \"Michael Williams,\" in accordance with the website's policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Drag queen Heklina spoke about the policy with \u003ca href=\"http://techcrunch.com/2014/09/15/why-facebook-is-deleting-drag-queen-profile-pages/\" target=\"_blank\">Tech Crunch\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“I’ve had this name for 20 years now,” she says. “I walk down the street and people say ‘Hi Heklina.’ People know me by my drag name.” She says asking her to revert to her birth name is akin to not acknowledging her as a person.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked just how many drag queens this may have affected, Heklina says every single drag queen she knows has been asked to revert to a name Facebook believes is more suitable. Well-known drag queens such as Sister Roma from the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, Peaches Christ and Pollo Del Mar are only able to be found on their fan pages at the moment.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Heklina, Roma and other local drag queens, including BeBe Sweetbriar and Lil Miss Hot Mess, have used \"\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/MyNameIs?src=hash\" target=\"_blank\">#MyNameIs\u003c/a>\" to raise awareness of Facebook's crackdown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We gave Facebook a chance to meet with us and I'm glad they took it,\" Heklina said. \"Having my profile suspended and my name questioned has been a very frustrating experience.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The drag queens have said that listing their legal names on their profiles puts them at risk of being found by family members, co-workers and others with whom they might not want to share the content of their pages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of Tuesday afternoon, more than 17,000 people have signed a \u003ca href=\"//www.change.org/p/facebook-allow-performers-to-use-their-stage-names-on-their-facebook-accounts\" target=\"_blank\">Change.org petition\u003c/a> by Seattle drag queen Olivia LaGarce asking Facebook to allow performers to keep their stage names on their profiles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Facebook specifies on one of its \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/help/112146705538576\" target=\"_blank\">help pages\u003c/a> that people must use their real names:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Facebook is a community where people use their real identities. We require everyone to provide their real names, so you always know who you're connecting with. This helps keep our community safe. ...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other things to keep in mind:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul class=\"uiList _341 _3p7 _4of _4kg\">\n\u003cli>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fcb\">The name you use should be your real name as it would be listed on your credit card, driver's license or student ID\u003c/div>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fcb\">Nicknames can be used as a first or middle name if they're a variation of your real first or last name (like Bob instead of Robert)\u003c/div>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fcb\">You can also list another name on your account (ex: maiden name, nickname or professional name) by adding an \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/help/131728300237162\">alternate name\u003c/a> to your profile\u003c/div>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fcb\">Profiles are for individual use only\u003c/div>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fcb\">Pretending to be anything or anyone isn't allowed\u003c/div>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp class=\"_3p8\">If your real name isn’t listed on your account, please \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/help/173909489329079\">change it now\u003c/a>. If you're unable to change it, \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/help/448505685205813\">learn more\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Today on\u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/a/forum/R201409160900\" target=\"_blank\"> KQED's \u003cem>Forum\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>,\u003c/em> host Michael Krasny discussed the issue with Sister Roma and Michelle Quinn, a tech columnist for the San Jose Mercury News. Quinn wrote in her \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/michelle-quinn/ci_26539679/quinn-drag-queens-challenge-facebooks-real-name-policy\" target=\"_blank\">column\u003c/a> yesterday:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>(Facebook) should tread carefully before changing its long-standing policy and allowing people to use fake names.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I worry about the perils in suddenly giving everyone on Facebook a choice about their identity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With a billion users, Facebook has to contend with a huge trust issue. Its challenge is to reassure users that they can operate in a safe online world, where their posts are seen by those they want to see them and people are who they say they are.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This policy creates accountability for what someone posts, especially critical when it comes to issues like cyberbullying. And ideally, it makes conversations more civil. Could that civility and that sense of safety be at risk if the company offers users a way to use a fake name?\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Quinn said on \u003cem>Forum\u003c/em> that Facebook's prohibition on fake names has been in place since its inception. However, the rule has been enforced haphazardly, with accounts under the names of even fictional characters making it through the system. \"Anybody can sign up for Facebook using a fake name,\" she said. \"They don't really require a whole lot of information.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One way that Facebook gets tipped off to accounts with fake names is through community reporting, Quinn said, raising the question of \"why are other drag queens like Sister Roma being reported in recent weeks?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Quinn called Facebook's communication with users like Sister Roma, insisting that they using their real names, \"ham-handed\" and \"insensitive.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the media, Facebook's statement has been the following:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“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. As part of our overall standards, we ask that people who use Facebook provide their real name on their profile.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sister Roma was not impressed. \"Wow, that feels like a genuine, heartfelt response, doesn't it? How's the rhetoric over there?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sister Roma said she loves Facebook and that \"the reason we're fighting for this is it's become such an important part of our lives. Nobody wants to see all of our online personalities disappear, and how boring would Facebook be without drag queens?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said she's been known by that name in or out of drag for 25 years. When she started the campaign against the policy, she said, she received emails from all over the world from people who use fake names for various reasons, including some whose lives would be in danger in certain countries if their real names were used.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Michelle Quinn posed the question: If anonymity is required online, why use Facebook?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It has become the right place to go,\" said Sister Roma. \"There's a billion users. If you're not on Facebook you may as well be invisible, almost.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Quinn said that with over a billion users, accountability is an everyday concern for the company. Other companies require credit cards, she said. \"Facebook, the one thing they have (for verification) is our identity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think the issue is stickiness or trust. Do I come to Facebook once a week and go -- ugh, what’s going on there and leave? Or do I go multiple times a day and live on Facebook and never log off? ... In their view, people are who they say they are, they represent themselves.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One caller to the show who has adopted children said birth parents or other relatives have made up fake names on Facebook in order to get in touch with them. \"You can see why Facebook might have a legitimate reason to have it be a real person, so people can't make up aliases and in some cases do some pretty bad things.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another caller said she is in a witness protection program and lives out of state because someone was stalking her family and she needed to use a fake name.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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He said at the end of two weeks, people with reactivated profiles must go by their real name, or create a fan \"page\" with their fake name.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Facebook officials have agreed to meet with local drag queens at San Francisco City Hall to discuss its policy of requiring legal names on accounts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Friday, San Francisco Supervisor David Campos called on the company to meet with those drag queens who reported in recent weeks they were locked out of their accounts under their stage names. The drag queens said they could regain access to their accounts only if they listed their legal names, such as one on a driver's license or credit card.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Facebook accepted the invitation from Campos on Monday after a group of drag queens and supporters threatened to hold a protest at the company's Menlo Park headquarters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I am glad that Facebook has accepted our invitation to engage in a meaningful public dialogue with the drag queens and members of the transgender community who have been affected by the profile name policy,\" Campos said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a post on her\u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/roma.roma\" target=\"_blank\"> Facebook account\u003c/a>, Sister Roma of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence said the meeting is scheduled for Wednesday, when she will join other drag queens to discuss the issue with Facebook representatives. Sister Roma, who was one of many drag queens locked out of her account, now uses her legal name, \"Michael Williams,\" in accordance with the website's policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Drag queen Heklina spoke about the policy with \u003ca href=\"http://techcrunch.com/2014/09/15/why-facebook-is-deleting-drag-queen-profile-pages/\" target=\"_blank\">Tech Crunch\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“I’ve had this name for 20 years now,” she says. “I walk down the street and people say ‘Hi Heklina.’ People know me by my drag name.” She says asking her to revert to her birth name is akin to not acknowledging her as a person.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked just how many drag queens this may have affected, Heklina says every single drag queen she knows has been asked to revert to a name Facebook believes is more suitable. 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We require everyone to provide their real names, so you always know who you're connecting with. This helps keep our community safe. ...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other things to keep in mind:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul class=\"uiList _341 _3p7 _4of _4kg\">\n\u003cli>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fcb\">The name you use should be your real name as it would be listed on your credit card, driver's license or student ID\u003c/div>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fcb\">Nicknames can be used as a first or middle name if they're a variation of your real first or last name (like Bob instead of Robert)\u003c/div>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fcb\">You can also list another name on your account (ex: maiden name, nickname or professional name) by adding an \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/help/131728300237162\">alternate name\u003c/a> to your profile\u003c/div>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fcb\">Profiles are for individual use only\u003c/div>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fcb\">Pretending to be anything or anyone isn't allowed\u003c/div>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp class=\"_3p8\">If your real name isn’t listed on your account, please \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/help/173909489329079\">change it now\u003c/a>. 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Its challenge is to reassure users that they can operate in a safe online world, where their posts are seen by those they want to see them and people are who they say they are.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This policy creates accountability for what someone posts, especially critical when it comes to issues like cyberbullying. And ideally, it makes conversations more civil. Could that civility and that sense of safety be at risk if the company offers users a way to use a fake name?\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Quinn said on \u003cem>Forum\u003c/em> that Facebook's prohibition on fake names has been in place since its inception. 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As part of our overall standards, we ask that people who use Facebook provide their real name on their profile.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sister Roma was not impressed. \"Wow, that feels like a genuine, heartfelt response, doesn't it? How's the rhetoric over there?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sister Roma said she loves Facebook and that \"the reason we're fighting for this is it's become such an important part of our lives. Nobody wants to see all of our online personalities disappear, and how boring would Facebook be without drag queens?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said she's been known by that name in or out of drag for 25 years. 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But, he says, the digital superhighway doesn’t bypass the need for real roads, real schools and real experts on the ground. “The connectivity doesn’t replace the interaction with a person at a moment of crisis.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Google Guy: Let’s Leapfrog\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The question now is not if Africans will use mobile more, but how.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Google has a tiny outpost in Senegal. Tidjane Deme is the head of it. After studying abroad and running a failed startup, he returned to his native Dakar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the early days of this office, he’d call his colleagues in Mountain View and they’d kind of hang up on him. ‘”Hmmm you say you’re from Dakar. We have an office there? 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When Deme compares the written word — typed or SMS texted — versus the video form, “I know without doubt that video form will win.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Given illiteracy in Africa, visual makes more sense. And also, much like the rest of the world, Africans like to see themselves online.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This will require much better \u003ca href=\"https://www.itu.int/en/ITU-D/Regulatory-Market/Documents/IIC_Africa_Final-en.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">broadband connection\u003c/a>, not just 2G and 3G signals. So the mobile operators have to step up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are more likely to leapfrog in the digital age if we go straight for high-quality Internet bandwidth rather than if we go and build crappy Internet as we have crappy roads,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Google data show there’s pent-up demand. So Deme says, each company investing in mobile stands to cash in big time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His theory has a provocative edge. I ask him if it’s unethical to push an Internet connectivity strategy in which people who do not have clean drinking water are paying for digital life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says without pause, “We should definitely not be telling people you’re too poor to get the benefits of Internet. I think that would be ethically wrong.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Local YouTube Celebrities\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A growing number of local artists agree with him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Take the stars of \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UuLaem52jXY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Journal Rapp\u003c/a> — an edgy news show that’s kind of like the “Daily Show,” except they rap the news. They’re capitalizing on the mobile economy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For years and years, host Xuman Mactarfal says, he’d see corrupt politicians squandering tax money. “They’re buying luxury cars. And without even hiding. All of that was on TV. 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But smartphones are so hot, he says, they make a great investment — just like gold!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you have extra cash and you don’t want to burn through it, you can buy a phone and store your money that way,” Sy says. “Then if you need cash, you can always sell it again.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Silicon Valley on a Humanitarian Mission?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mobile explosion in sub-Saharan Africa came as a surprise. 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