Should Twitface Etc Have Verifiable Ids?

[ToraToraTora]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-44438468
Not often I agree with a Labour MP, especially this one, but she has a point here.

[ichkeria]

Jess Phillips is a star

[woofgang]

I thought it already did?

[woofgang]

oh I see I thought she meant for official pages. I don't think its do able.

[Old_Geezer]

What constitutes a variable ID ? I think many would be loath to contribute to web discussions if they could be identified and be got at as a result. One feels freer to speak out when simply another Guy Fawkes. Better surely to tackle abuse as it occurs rather than cripple Internet strengths.

[Old_Geezer]

VERIFIABLE :-(

[-Talbot-]

Verifiable LIKE YOU TYPE, OG?

[youngmafbog]

Verification could be done with a credit card, ok open to some potential abuse but goes someway to achieving the goal.

Whatever, something needs to stop this type of abuse/bullying she went through, there is simply no excuse for it.

[jno]

can't wait to see AB try it.

[youngmafbog]

Much as we all love AB I am not sure it is quite in the same league as TwitFace.

[jno]

how are you going to differentiate? "Only big American websites"?

[Old_Geezer]

Not everyone has a credit card and most have the sense not to give it's data out willy nilly to anyone who demands it.

[youngmafbog]

Not very imaginative jno are you?

I'm not necessarily for it just saying it can be done.

So how about gross turnover or number of registered users. I'm sure there are plenty more if you apply the little grey cells.

[youngmafbog]

OK then OG, how about the same method they intend to use for porn sites?

[douglas9401]

It could be trialled on here.

My real name's Jennifer. :-)

[gulliver1]

Quite often on A/B , TTT creates a post about " Twitface" is he referring to his present avatar, or what!

[tonyav]

Not often I agree with a Labour MP, especially this one, but she has a point here

So do I, TTT.

[jno]

same question, though, ymb: where are you going to draw these lines? 100 users? 1000? 1 million?

And the subsidiary question: when someone's listed them all, how are they to be kept from being hacked?

As I recall, a list of email addresses of several hundred ABers did appear online once.

[Old_Geezer]

What about the method for porn sites ?
Stupid idea. Folk will go to foreign sites who aren't complying.
Another example of parents wanting the world to parent for them; plus a bit of naive politicians trying to censor something that's near if not actually uncensorable to be seen trying to do something regardless how much sense it makes.