Facebook issued new Community Standards last week. Basically, the standards are a guideline for users, telling them what's allowable and what's forbidden as postings.

Facebook didn't change its stance with regards to issues such as online bullying, nude pictures and spam. Facebook global product policy Monika Bickert said the newly released and lengthier guideline was meant to clarify certain issues that may not have been explained well in the old Community Standards.

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Bickert said although the policies are "blunt," they have to make policies that will be followed by all users from around the globe.

The social network received a lot of flak lately because of its practice of locking out accounts of users who didn't want to sign in using their legal names. Last year, Facebook issued a public apology to a collection of transgender, drag queens and drag king users. 

Facebook locked them out of their accounts because they wanted to use their stage names rather than their legal names. Even Native Americans were locked out of Facebook because their names are not considered "real."

Facebook now allows users to sign with their "authentic identity," which may not be their legal name.

It also expanded its definition of hate speech and said it will allow humor, satire, social commentary and even quoting of hate speech to raise social awareness of certain issues.

Facebook still reserves the right to remove content from its site. It did assure its users that they'll still review the content and not automatically remove it even if many users flag the content.

Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg, however, insists content will be removed if it violates the law of certain countries.

The standard also deals with various issues such as "sexual violence and exploitation."

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