Many of our friends in the cosplay community had their accounts deleted on Facebook because they weren’t “Real People.” I might run a criminal organization but I that doesn’t mean I don’t like injustice.
So one day, the cosplay community (and Salman Rushdie) woke up to find all their Facebook accounts gone. Some were separate accounts that cosplayers kept in order to avoid stalking, some to keep potential employers from seeing their cosplay life, and some just because they didn’t want to bother their family and non-cosplay friends with all that cosplay stuff they don’t understand anyway. In the case of Mr. Rushdie he beat the book of face’s policy and is now Salman Rushdie again, however the cosplay community is still left with a gaping hole where all their photos, contact info, and memories used to be. On a personal level, outside of cosplay but as a transgender individual, this policy and random enforcement frightens me and makes me worried that Facebook All Mighty will start erasing Trans individuals from their social media website, and could lead Facebook down a very transphobic path.
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