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Discrimination is illegal.

Companies can't just do whatever they want. They are bound by laws and ethics. If these policies are found to discriminate against rape survivors (for example) they could very well be ruled illegal.

Don't confuse a legal grey area with something being legal.

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"You must use your real name here" is not discrimination and it is not illegal. It may be something you disagree with, but that's another matter.

Discrimination would be a "whites only" social network, and regardless of legality, I'm sure they exist.

A good lawyer could convince a jury that requiring real names amounts to a "whites only" or a "men only" rule, which would be illegal.

I do not believe that's true. If it was, somebody would have already dinged Facebook for millions of dollars.

Using this logic, nothing new will ever happen because if something could happen it would have already happened.

Well, let me modify that to say "if something that could have made someone millions of dollars for not doing much could happen it would have already happened", something I fervently believe.

Good lawyers have surprised me before, but that's so clearly false, as one glance at Facebook will show, that I have to think it would get laughed out of any courtroom.

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