Popular US political blogger Jon Swift got kicked off Facebook today for not using his real name. It's against FB's rules apparently. But then after some negative blogging about the issue, Facebook reinstated him. What will this to-ing and fro-ing do to the UK bloggers that use false names on Facebook, like Guido Fawkes, and TWL ('Theo' Worlds Leading)? TWL won't care too much I imagine...
Jon Swift's account was reinstated shortly after he was told there would be no reinstatement. The email he got explaining the reinstatement is on his blog. The terms of service say you cannot misrepresent who you are, but since he well known under his nom-de-plume, Facebook determined he wasn't in violation of the TOS. We reported this on yesterday's FIR, by the way.
Posted by: Shel Holtz | November 07, 2007 at 12:05 AM
You can read the email I received by following this link to my blog:
http://jonswift.blogspot.com/2007/11/facebook-declares-war-on-blogosphere.html
Links are really easy to use. You just click on them and they take you right to the story.
Posted by: Jon Swift | November 09, 2007 at 11:15 AM
They work better on some blogs like this though.
Posted by: Jon Swift | November 09, 2007 at 11:17 AM