I read this morning the devastating story of Alicia Istanbul, a young woman who was just trying to stay in touch with her friends through Facebook when she was viciously discriminated against! Facebook unilaterally decided that it would profile the names of its users – ethnically, no doubt – and drop the banhammer on those whose implied nationality they didn’t like. Alicia and her sister were despondent.
When she tried to get reinstated, her emails and letters were ignored. There was “*no question* that [their] actions in this regard constitute clear and unmistakable intolerance and discrimination against [Alicia and her sister] because of [their] name.”
