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> While we have always welcomed the opportunity to hear ideas from partners on what will help, including from within the football community, our data suggests t
by eitland 5y ago
> While we have always welcomed the opportunity to hear ideas from partners on what will help, including from within the football community, our data suggests that ID verification would have been unlikely to prevent the abuse from happening - as the accounts we suspended themselves were not anonymous. Of the permanently suspended accounts from the Tournament, 99% of account owners were identifiable.
Even higher than expected but absolutely no surprise.
Full name policies prevents the thoughtful, the vulnerable and the shy from communicating, not the trolls and abusers who either just create fake but real looking accounts or who doesn't care.
- Brakenshire 5y agoIf the accounts are subject to ID verification then the abuser can be prosecuted.
- eitland 5y agoCorrect. If the transgressions are bad enough and police have resources. But it still keeps the thoughtful, the vulnerable and the shy out of the public debate.
- mensetmanusman 5y agoI will admit, prior to FB I totally thought the opposite would happen. I couldn’t imagine saying anything political under my own name, because I would rather say nothing than incite controversy over text (which is a sub par medium of communication), because the probability of real dialog approaches 0%. The fact that there are people who don’t care surprises me somewhat, but it must be a huge cultural difference (something akin to the curse of knowledge).