The same kind of "data science" that associated many people and businesses named after the Egyptian goddess with an Islamic terror group and took automatic action against them?
I think we need to move to some way to identify actual people on the internet. I don't mean that in a "use your real name and upload your passport"-kind of way, but in a "we can 100% reliably tell you've been a twat in the past, whomever you are, so no new signups for you"-kind of way that also accounts for all the various interests such as right to privacy and anonymity.
Many platforms use phone numbers for that now, which is obviously far from perfect as I can easily get 100 of those today if I wanted to.
That's not a ludicrous idea. India requires activity be logged to a specific individual,
for instance. Seems a bit dystopian for my sensibilities though.
I think we need to move to some way to identify actual people on the internet. I don't mean that in a "use your real name and upload your passport"-kind of way, but in a "we can 100% reliably tell you've been a twat in the past, whomever you are, so no new signups for you"-kind of way that also accounts for all the various interests such as right to privacy and anonymity.
Many platforms use phone numbers for that now, which is obviously far from perfect as I can easily get 100 of those today if I wanted to.