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Wellllll... In principle verification is not in itself an endorsement by the platform
In principle platforms should verify government entities, given sufficent documentation
In practice, I don't fucking care, abolish ICE, fuck everyone who bows to them, platforms aren't obligated to be the mouthpieces of clearly fascist governments
Why?
I mean, you can't really have accounts, pretending to be the president of the US, making joke tweets, and having people believe them. In that sense, verification is reasonable.
But yeah, Bluesky shouldn't be letting these freaks anywhere near their platform
I say verify ‘em and then ban ‘em. “This is the real account, and it can really fuck off.”
If the platforms are (or pretend to be) politically neutral, then that's what they should do - just make sure the accounts that are being created are what they're being purported to be.
As I said, that's bare minimum. Next comes a lot of risk mitigation. Some common sense risk mitigation.