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If we are talking about Obama, then sure, let's make it hard for people to impersonate him. But what happens when you get down to some guy with a YouTube channe
by gitfan86 4y ago
If we are talking about Obama, then sure, let's make it hard for people to impersonate him. But what happens when you get down to some guy with a YouTube channel and 10k subscribers. Does he have a public facing job? What if he only had 100 subscribers?
It becomes an arbitrary status symbol eventually.
- simonw 4y agoIn those cases it was about risk of impersonation. Plenty of people who weren't "famous" still had enough of an audience that it was profitable for some crypto-hawking spammer to imitate them and try to con their audience.
- ghaff 4y agoThat basically happened to me. Modest number of followers but enough for the crypto-grifters to spam.