PERSONAL NAME CHANGE

Speaking of name changes, the Constitutional Review Committee should also consider a completely new proposal allowing individuals to change their names. To be clear, one can change their name but the process is tortuous and tiresome.

Name change for individuals should be as easy as it is for companies. People should be allowed to change names for the same reasons that companies do.

Facebook is responsible for hundreds of thousands of deaths across the globe and the examples one can readily give are Myanmar and Ethiopia. A former Facebook employee testified as much when she appeared before the United States House of Representatives. As a matter of fact, the west would call Facebook’s owner, Mark Zuckerberg, a “warlord” if he weren’t American and white. Precisely because of the bad press it was getting, Facebook renamed itself Meta and a New Yorker satirist considered the possibility of Zuckerberg renaming himself Mother Theresa. Here at home, one of the companies that played a role in the theft of huge sums of public money also changed its name. Clearly, the purpose of this legal provision is to conceal evidence of wrongdoing on the part of companies. However, those companies are owned by people and so even if Facebook changes its name to Meta, evidence of wrongdoing persists in the form of the company owner retaining his own personal name.