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Re:Facebook sues Namecheap by ralphstodomingo on Thursday March 05, 2020 @11:26PM (#22500992)
Isn't this problem solvable by looking at it differently? To me, the problem is that it's easy for scammers to impersonate someone. What if there was a way to reasonably check a person's identity in a standard way accessible to everyone without going through hoops?
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Re:Facebook sues Namecheap by logifail on Friday March 06, 2020 @04:26AM (#22502170)
> What if there was a way to reasonably check a person's identity [...]

I would expect my relatives to validate my identity before sending money to me via any new method.

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Re:Facebook sues Namecheap by luckylion on Friday March 06, 2020 @03:07AM (#22501801)
> What if there was a way to reasonably check a person's identity in a standard way accessible to everyone without going through hoops?

There is, or there are. Western Union just doesn't care about it, because it costs money and their fee still gets paid if the scam works.

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Re:Facebook sues Namecheap by r-w on Friday March 06, 2020 @01:40AM (#22501440)
That ideal won’t come true for a very long while. I appreciate your idealism, but for better or worse, we need a reasonable and attainable solution in the interim.
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