Idris Elba wants social media users to be verified with their real life identification information

[milotic2]

Idris Elba pushes for social media platforms to verify all users. https://t.co/5lHHMprrju
- Complex Pop Culture (@ComplexPop) July 18, 2021
“People in the public eye get verified on social media,” he wrote in a statement, “the process of verification requires them to prove their identity...” He went on to write, in all caps, “SOCIAL MEDIA COMPANIES

Comments

[cgoblin]

hahahahha

good one

[avingnon]

Absolutely not. Make those billion dollar companies spend more money on monitoring hate, racism, sexism, bullying etc instead.

[trekkiepetrelli]

if they can take down 'copyright' violations in minutes, they can take down racist/sexist abusive

[la_loony]

This.
These fuckers already collect more information from users than they should be allowed to, don't let them get access to peoples IDs!

[sluttyroyals]

Alienating multiple people including the undocumented, the homeless, doxxing people who have escaped abusive households and DON’T want any info out there…. I get WHY that’d be an idea, but uh…no.

[marywebgirl]

Plenty of people on Facebook have no problem saying awful shit under their real name. We need the companies to be better about kicking off people spewing lies and hate speech.

[willardwright]

Exactly. I remember when some websites first introduced having to comment using your Facebook account, and everybody thought it'd mean people would comment less and be more reasonable, but no, they just kept saying the same vile shit they were saying before, only now under their real name and with a photo of themselves with their baby next to that comment.

[espressotorte]

Excellent point

[my_moloko]

Exactly. I have so many friends who get temporarily kicked off FB for posting the most random stuff but when you report actual hate speech, racism, sexism, etc somehow it doesn't violate the community guidelines.

[ghostsaddle]

lmfao yikes