commit: da9011af1fdaae725c8f96be2c87b3c5d65de6b0
parent b2810ab4f6ab48ad870e92c75b6b0dd293f58ea8
Author: Haelwenn (lanodan) Monnier <contact@hacktivis.me>
Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2020 19:30:35 +0200
articles/real names: fix typos
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1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/articles/real names.xhtml b/articles/real names.xhtml
@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
<article xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en" class="h-entry">
<a href="/articles/real%20names"><h1>real names</h1></a>
-<p>This post is sponsored by Contributing to Libre Software (and OpenPGP) feels like Facebook all over again. 🙃️</p>
+<p>This post is sponsored by Contributing to Libre Software (and using OpenPGP) feels like Facebook all over again. 🙃️</p>
<p>Whatever the fuck is a "real name", is my handle unreal? If it's a "legal name" is my handle illegal? If it's a "government alias" am I "James (lanodan) Bond"? Is that latter name less real than the others? If you find my "true name" can you control my soul?</p>
<p>Regarding the legal name, in France (where I've been living since birth), at least last time I checked (few years and this might have changed, this is not a legal source), a name is considered to be what other people call you, meaning that for changing your name in your ID/passport you need someone else to testify (paper is fine) you actually answer and use this name and send that to IIRC the mayor of your city. Meanwhile for administrative documents (rent, university, …) you should be able to just ask for another name to be used or use another one, which can also serve as testification.</p>
<p>It is not perfect and still causes trouble (such as the mayor refusing the name change even if they shouldn't be able to), my stance for years has been "whatever name you give me or other people use, I'll consider it a name". I think most people have experienced someone getting a nickname and it got stuck for years and when the given name is used no one recognises it including people like teachers, in that case I consider that the given name doesn't works (kind of like a "not found" error).</p>
-<p>Now for what motivated this post: I find real "real name" being enforcements stupid and baseless (no offense, it's the act/behavior, not you). Here's why:<ul>
+<p>Now for what motivated this post: I find real "real name" enforcements stupid and baseless (no offense, it's the act/behavior, not you). Here's why:<ul>
<li>Almost no one can verify name authenticity, even Facebook can't (and they should never).</li>
<li>"real" names are different from one state to another (content, formatting, alphabet, …)</li>
<li>For copyright, stuff like pseudonyms are recognised, see pen names</li>
