The stated intent was what you say. The way it was practiced, they have a point. There were many cases of people being denied verification who could have badly

The stated intent was what you say. The way it was practiced, they have a point. There were many cases of people being denied verification who could have badly needed it. Personally I noticed that about people affiliated with Wikileaks, many who I know asked for it and got rejections without explanation. Richard "Lowtax" Kyanka, Louis Farrakhan and Milo Yiannopolous are examples of people who lost their checkmarks not because Twitter started to doubt they were themselves, but because they were so loathed.