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Even better: social security numbers
lol, if it's downvoted that's how you know americans did it, because people from other countries have no idea why SS number is important or what it is
Just hand out IDs with an actual unique id number with a check digit to _all_ citizens.
On the "fake name" thing: I felt guilty reading it, as in many past companies "Mark Zuckerberg" (and Bill Gates, and Tim Apple, Elon Musk etc) was indeed often used as a placeholder for test accounts and test data, and it never crossed my mind that we were basically training ourself to also treat a "Mark Zuckerberg" on our service as an account that escaped the sandbox or some other attack on the service.
Lol, it's Tim Cook, Mr. President.
It can be a pain as so many local organisations use Facebook as a free way to share information. Unfortunately if you're not logged in pages can be rate limited, get spammed with modals to sign up, can't scroll very far into any feed and probably in his case a nuisance as a platform for his business.
I once received a number of hateful mentions and DMs on Twitter because I share my name with a 60 Minutes Australia journalist who was the producer on a story about Conrad Murray (Michael Jackson's personal doctor). People really are that stupid.
On the "fake name" thing: I felt guilty reading it, as in many past companies "Mark Zuckerberg" (and Bill Gates, and Tim Apple, Elon Musk etc) was indeed often used as a placeholder for test accounts and test data, and it never crossed my mind that we were basically training ourself to also treat a "Mark Zuckerberg" on our service as an account that escaped the sandbox or some other attack on the service.
Lol, it's Tim Cook, Mr. President.
Looking back at that period is depressing af.
I wonder if he’s ever had anything positive happen because of it. That list looks like a PITA :)
The "rich" Mark Zuckerburg should give him some compensation for the hassle. That would be right thing to do.
1) those who inflict harm on others, considering that being wealthy or disliked does not justify actions such as death threats
2) those who target the wrong person simply due to a shared name.
Any discussion of compensation should be directed at them.