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How do you propose protecting against a Howard Stern impersonator?
by hgsgm 4y ago
How do you propose protecting against a Howard Stern impersonator?
- nozzlegear 4y agoI’m not a Howard Stern listener or even a Twitter user, but in Stern’s case I guess I’d listen to his radio show to hear him say what his real Twitter handle is.
- prepend 4y agoI’m not sure I need protection against a Howard Stern impersonator. But I suppose the exact same way HN protects me from a John Carmack impersonator. The platform does nothing to protect me. And I don’t really care if someone impersonates him. If I did, I would check on his website or somewhere else that he publishes his HN handle. Kind of like on AMAs when people post a photo saying their handle and the date. I trust that more than the platform anyway.
- hammyhavoc 4y agoIMO, HN and Twitter are not comparable. You can't follow people. Whereas for example, if someone isn't a major figure or org, but is somewhere in-between, what's to stop someone buying followers or rebranding an existing account and spouting nonsense? You might not value authenticity, but the average consumer placed a lot of importance in it. Have people learned nothing with deepfakes? A picture isn't proof.
- prepend 4y agoThere’s due diligence to follow people and the blue check mark shouldn’t remove the need for knowing who is the person you follow or at least what you do with their info. I don’t think a blue check mark pre acquisition met this requirement just as it doesn’t now. Photos can be deepfaked, but there are ways to help against that. Like having the photo posted by a known person. I mean, users could deepfake the ids used for pre acquisition twitter, but I’ve never heard of anyone doing that. Just like I’ve never heard of anyone deepfaking their way past an AMA proof.