Facebook, the social network that conned users out of their privacy in its last redesign, nearly topped itself last night, misdirecting hundreds of private messages. Including sending an "explicit chat" to a newspaper reporter. Even by Facebook standards, that's bad.

In Facebook's struggles to build the worlds largest and most thorough database for marketers and advertisers, the site can be more than a little uptight when it comes to users with less-than-common names like "Elmo Keep." But is the policy, which reminds me of Germany's law that requires parents to clear the names of new children with the state, more sinister than just poorly paid customer service drones with ban-happy habits? That's ghunda's theory: