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A bit late for that. It can put people in marginalized communities in grave danger. Think about all the LGBTQIA+ folks who get threatened daily and all the women who were doxxed during Gamer Gate or you know, just for being women in tech. phones #, photos, addresses published.

What separates TW from FB is that FB requires friendships or connections to allow certain types of communication (ie blocking msgs from ppl they don't know). They're not at all perfect but better off. Twitter doesn't know how or _actually_ care to safeguard anything. At all.

Real names? Which ones? Given birth? Pre-Op? Post-op? What about immigrants' who change their names to make them easier to pronounce? What about people in other countries? How do we verify? FB has rejected transgender users bcuz they didn't think their names were real (they were)

I think his comment is really just hitting on the fact that in the current set up, no one is really shielded at all. People are being attacked and private info is being published, yet the only “protected” individuals are those predators that lurk in the shadows.

I'm hitting on the current set up, too. There aren't safeguards, heck they don't even have consistent policies on handling abusive accounts and issues. I'm saying they need to start there before names etc happens. Set up policies first, test them, make sure they work.

How would I suggest that? I'd love to see TW map out the user cases that are the worst and scariest, first and work their way back to good use cases. I worry that only real names opens up socio-economic and other issues and might be too narrow of a scope for verification.

Terrible idea. How would activists inside oppressive countries speak out without risk of punishment?

How do you know an activist inside an oppressive country is really an activist inside an oppressive country when nothing and no one is verifiably real on Twitter?

Such a curious tweet from someone with your experience @OfficeofMayor. ..There are solid connections outside the US we can review, ..The roadblock is counting on US commercial media to care/broadcast so US viewers see concern for foreign lives as relevant. #HumanRights #news

I'm not disputing real activists use social media to get the word out about oppression & rebellion. There are huge problems with verification & abuse on these platforms. Using the edge case of anon activists to counter calls for fixing platforms overrun with bots seems misguided.

Let's make tweets undeleteable.

Isn't that just @coinbase?