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Quoted: Blogger Jon Swift, banned from Facebook

Blogger Jon Swift was banned from Facebook for joining under a pseudonym:

What exactly does “real name” mean? Would Bob Dylan be banned if he didn’t sign up as Robert Zimmerman? [from Jon Swift]

The most interesting thing about the whole silly affair is to wonder how Facebook knows that Jon Swift was not his real name. He didn’t get a request for ID or anything, so how does Facebook “know,” with enough authority to ban, that a name is fake?