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> completely wiped out by the decision to hand a blue checkmark to whoever would pay a couple of dollars I personally thought this was clever at the time, but
by r3trohack3r 2y ago
> completely wiped out by the decision to hand a blue checkmark to whoever would pay a couple of dollars
I personally thought this was clever at the time, but maybe I’m missing something.
By charging for the checkmark, it seemed like they took a short cut to “identity verification” that uses what we accept for our financial infrastructure as a baseline.
If you show up with a credit card bearing a name, either you are bamboozling the financial system or you are who you claim to be.
- anigbrowl 2y agoYou can just buy a prepaid debit card at a supermarket and call yourself whoever you want.
- r3trohack3r 2y agoWhen I got a blue checkmark it required a review period. I’d assumed that the review involved checking the payment against the public profile. This belief is reinforced by the observation that every change I’ve made to my public persona (name, profile picture, description) has resulted in a temporary loss of my blue check mark for a review process. Maybe I misunderstood the nature of that review.