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Real name policies bother me a lot. They're just about the laziest and most personally-intrusive way to get the worst kind of legibility into your user base.

I don't often wish for legislative resolutions to social ills, but if anything needed a law, it's this. Maybe California or the EU will take up the torch. Ideally both, I don't want companies evading these kinds of things by bifurcating their userbases.



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