A San Francisco-based engineer, claims to have had her Facebook account disabled because of her name. She complained on Twitter that her Facebook account had been disabled, and suggested it was because of her name. “Why would you disable my personal account? MY REAL NAME IS ISIS ANCHALEE /facepalm,” she tweeted at Facebook.
ISIS does not need any introduction, as it stands for a terrorist organization and its full form is “Islamic State of Iraq & Syria”. But not a number of people are aware of the fact that Isis is a famous Egyptian goddess too and there are many women of this name together with 396 infants born last year in the US. We really don’t need to tell how life would have been of the women named Isis just because of a terrorist organization and even though they were named after Goddess, they had to go through a lot of problems.
One of her Facebook friends noted that their message thread had been marked as spam. “Facebook thinks I’m a terrorist and froze my account,” she replied.
She said she sent Facebook a screenshot of her passport, proving that her birth name was Isis. She said on the third effort she made to verify her identity proved successful.
A Facebook researcher, Omid Farivar, tweeted at Anchalee publicly to apologise eight hours after her initial complaint on Tuesday. “Isis, sorry about this. I don’t know what happened. I’ve reported it to the right people and we’re working on fixing it.”
Earlier this year Facebook cemented a policy requiring people to use their real names. Users are asked to refrain from adding symbols, punctuation, unusual characters, professional or religious titles, or “offensive or suggestive words of any kind” to their names to “keep our community safe”.
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