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Verifying your identity on Twitter will require taking a selfie
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#12Elon's doing so many things that will gut Twitter/X. When he gives up trying, what lessons will he learn? This is my breaking point. I will not give up anonymity on this platform.
> Elon's doing so many things that will gut Twitter/X.
They've just been on the front-page of all the Western media today, from the FT, to BBC to the NYTimes, they're doing quite all-right.
Meanwhile I realized today that I have genuinely forgotten the name of the Twitter clone put forward by Zuckerberg, C...something. Ah, no, I've just googled it now, it's Threads. Yeah, that project is dead in the water.
Re: Verifying your identity on Twitter will require taking a selfie
#13Over my dead body.
Looks like its for "verified" users only. Is it more acceptable in this case?
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#14The funny thing is there are now plenty of selfie generators based on a single image that could operate off of a fake or stolen ID
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#15This is literally why I left facebook almost 10 years ago. They locked me out and required I send them a photo of my ID. I said, "Y'all ain't the cops... imma not do that"
...but first I drew them an ID in crayon which they rejected, then one in acrylics, one in color pencil, one in pastels, etc, etc... My goal was to make one for each of the 50 states, but I only did like 5 before I got bored of sending them and having them rejected as not valid IDs.
Anyways, I'm not ever sending a social media company government issued IDs. Not gonna happen.
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#16Are these hard to come by? I bet you could pay less than $10 per id+selfie combo Nowadays, you could autogenerated both, and it's way more expensive to check the I'd than to generate one
Stripe Identity does it for $1.50/proofing request. Not sure what ID.me charges (what Login.gov is pushing out across the federal agency fleet). If you fake it, of course the recourse is the legal system for identity fraud.
> [T]he recourse is the legal system for identity fraud.
Is it though? Are there sets of federal or state laws [in the United States] that say you must never misrepresent your identity to a private party (X) if they ask for it? Wouldn't their recourse just be their ToS? What if a retail store clerk asked you when buying toothpaste? I suppose the law would probably be around the fake identities themselves? (e.g. creating a fake driver's license) But that would still be up to the state to prosecute, right?
I presume there are of course laws about misrepresenting your identity to the government, but now I am curious to what extent that's the case for private parties.
(I don't know much about the law in this area)
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#17This is literally why I left facebook almost 10 years ago. They locked me out and required I send them a photo of my ID. I said, "Y'all ain't the cops... imma not do that" ...but first I drew them an ID in crayon which they rejected, then one in acrylics, one in color pencil, one in pastels, etc, etc... My goal was to make one for each of the 50 states, but I only did like 5 before I got bored of sending them and hav…
I feel like with AI tools now you could automate this and just enjoy the responses
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#18CCPA and GDPR are going to have a field day with this crap
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#19Are these hard to come by? I bet you could pay less than $10 per id+selfie combo Nowadays, you could autogenerated both, and it's way more expensive to check the I'd than to generate one
I mean, I lack a government ID, and it'd be nearly impossible for me to get one, so yeah.
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#20Elon's doing so many things that will gut Twitter/X. When he gives up trying, what lessons will he learn? This is my breaking point. I will not give up anonymity on this platform.
You don't have to. It's only if you want the blue checkmark.
Twitter/X needs the money from checkmarks more then anyone needs checkmarks.