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Is a brand considered a "real name and real person"?
by Nav_Panel 9y ago
Is a brand considered a "real name and real person"?
- will_brown 9y agoYes, at least according to the Supreme Court of The United States.
- metalliqaz 9y agoI don't see why not. A brand is owned by a company. That company has a registered name and real people working the social media accounts.
- scrollaway 9y agoGuess we'll have to get rid of those guys then: * https://twitter.com/ReactJS https://twitter.com/ReactJS * https://twitter.com/postgresql https://twitter.com/postgresql * https://twitter.com/officialcatfact https://twitter.com/officialcatfact
- metalliqaz 9y agoWhy? Same applies.
- scrollaway 9y agoThere is no ReactJS company. There is a company behind ReactJS but that's irrelevant since there's also a company behind those millions of fake users. What about my pet open source projects, shall I shut down their account because they don't have a company backing them?
- scott_s 9y agoI think you're arguing a point that no one upthread made. The proposal was to make sure that a real person was behind the account, in good faith - not necessarily that person's personal account. So your accounts and the ones you linked to upthread are fine. The "good faith" part means that there can't be a hard-and-fast rule for which Twitter accounts are okay. Human judgement will be required to sort out good-faith users (including brands or open source projects) from bad-faith users (paying people to run accounts that just inflate other accounts' numbers).
- marenkay 9y agoIn most legislations, a brand is considered a "legal person". (which is hilarious when you register your company as forms kind of treat the company as if it were a person)