Facebook discriminates against the fictitious

Okay... so there was this fantastic conversation on the Progressive Exchange mailing list, all about Facebook deleting the Ranger Rick profile because they only want real people's identities as user profiles, and the pros and cons of the policy in light of the desire for authenticity, and the implications for activism and online mobilization...

...and I was going to tell you all about it...

...and Beth Kanter beat me to it with exactly the blog post I was going to write, only hers is better, so go read it .