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And AFAIK an anonymous political dissident wouldn’t want a blue checkmark?

Furthermore, there can be layers of anonymity. There can be anonymous publicly but not to Twitter. That’s dangerous given that Twitter cannot protect your identity from a state actor accessing its internal systems. Thus, again, why would you want a checkmark as a dissident.



Again, not every speech revolves around political dissent.


Some does though.

So the fact that this applies to some people means that it is an issue for those people.


We can have special arrangements for special circumstances.




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