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Comment by dale_glass | Hacker News Reader

There's anonymity on Facebook? Don't they have a real name policy still?

There's a feature where you can post to groups anonymously, still using your real account, rather than creating a new account with fake data to make you appear anonymous.

Just to add to this. If the anonymous post was made on a group, the group administrators could still see it. So it's only anonymous for the rest of the (non-admin) group members.

There's a dead comment sibling to this one talking about how group admins can see through the anominity. I don't understand why it is dead. It wasn't even rudely stated. Is it just flat wrong, or did it cross some unknown social boundary by pointing out a fact? Was it edited posthumously?

Edit: And, when I refresh it's not dead... I don't understand this system apparently.

> Edit: And, when I refresh it's not dead... I don't understand this system apparently.

If enough people vouch for a dead comment it goes back to normal. That's probably what you saw.

I had a similar reaction as well: Isn't that just a little disingenuous - or misplaced surprise? My impression was Facebook shouldn't rank high on privacy or free speech security ("free speech" is not defined by the US constitution, and this is a european case anyway).

On the bright side, the article is full of interesting detail.

To the degree they bother enforcing it. I still see lots of vanity accounts people create for their dogs and cats, for example.

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