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Great so if you have the same name as a national leader don't pretend to be that national leader. If you do, expect to be brought to court over that impersonati

Great so if you have the same name as a national leader don't pretend to be that national leader. If you do, expect to be brought to court over that impersonation. I'm sure if i made a <social media account> tonight claiming to be the president of the USA I'd eventually get shutdown; KYC just makes it more straightforward to prosecute or block the offenders. Or repurpose the misinformation banners to make it clear that this is a person with the same name not a person with the same position/title. Maybe the long-tail gets messy but that's where implicitly or explicitly linking to external sources is valuable. Or just trust twitter to be that external source (maybe with 3rd party alternatives via "open sources").

kbenson 4y ago
> Great so if you have the same name as a national leader don't pretend to be that national leader. By "missing some of the nuance", I meant of the example presented earlier (https://twitter.com/willsmith https://twitter.com/willsmith), which is not someone impersonating Will Smith the actor, is someone somewhat famous in their own right (even if much less so than the actor), and has the name because they were on Twitter first. They go out of their way to state who they are and to disambiguate themselves from the actor Will Smith, but are also verified as Will Smith. Guess what? They got a lot of hate tweets recently from people that didn't bother to actually look whether @willsmith was the actor or not and just blindly assumed so. Perhaps you missed some of the nuance in that as well?