Drag Queens Continue To Protest Facebook's 'Real Name' Policy

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Drag queens protested Facebook's real-name policy in front of the Menlo Park, the corporation's California headquarters, on Monday.

Alongside other members of the LGBT community, Native Americans, and victims of domestic violence, a group dubbed the #MyNameIs campaign organized the protest against the policy that Facebook promised to amend last year.

Although the policy requires users to display the legal names from their birth certificates on their profiles, protesters objected for various reasons, such as going by stage names, or avoiding stalkers and abusers.

Drag queen and protest leader, Sister Roma, told Re/code:

"People are still using the fake name reporting option as a way to target and maliciously bully people they find objectionable for whatever reason. We were trying to get Facebook to understand that for the past nine months, and no significant changes were made. We've reached our breaking point."

Although Facebook has amended the policy, it still requires people to use their authentic name to keep them accountable for cyberbullying and abuse.

Facebook vice-president of global operations, Justin Osofsky, and head of global product policy, Monika Bickert, posted Monday on the Facebook Safety Page: