We already know Facebook's policy on pseudonyms is maddeningly inconsistent, but this news, just shared by tech veteran Jon Lebkowsky on Facebook, takes that policy to a new height of ridiculous irony:

"R.U. Sirius" is not a pseudonym known only to Ken Goffman's friends and family -- it's on Wikipedia, and for good reason: Founder of the incredibly influential Mondo 2000 (a predecessor to Wired magazine), Ken was talking about the Internet as a community a full decade before Facebook even existed. This is pretty much tantamount to prohibiting Neal Stephenson from actually using the metaverse. And it makes this quote from Ken doubly ironic: