A telling example that verifying identity doesn’t stop nasty messages.
to insult other users, labeling one individual a “patronising knob” and another journalist a “public school posh boy fuckwit.”
Ben Glaze of the Sunday Mirror has an interest in my three daughters which borders on decidedly creepy/ stalker esque. Here is a message....Be seen within a mile of my daughters and I will nail your balls to the floor... using your own front teeth. Do you get that?Dorries is now pushing the government’s newly announced moderation plans as part of the Online Safety Bill, which is intended to overhaul rules for removing harmful content on the internet.
The exact details of implementation will be left up to the platforms, but the government suggests they could verify users’ identities using government-issued IDs like passports and driver’s licenses. Those platforms would then offer users the option “to tick a box in their settings to receive direct messages and replies only from verified accounts.”, Neil Brown of the internet-focused law firm decoded.legal, said the plans would not stop all online abuse.
Brown added that the plans would negatively affect those who wish to remain anonymous online but don’t engage in abusive behavior: “If you don’t identify yourself, you could be grouped with millions of others, and with one click your comments will no longer be seen.” In addition to verifying users’ identity, the UK government said this week it wanted to give people the option to block all “legal but harmful content” on social media — posts that fall below the threshold for criminal prosecution but may still include racist abuse, the promotion of self-harm, vaccine misinformation, and the like. Again, the government did not detail exactly how social media platforms would be expected to enforce this policy.
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