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Idris Elba had a recent post on the social media that caught my attention and I reposted it and then started thinking about it and wasn't really sure how I felt about it.

So I wanted to bring it to y'all to get your feedback and Trevelle. I'm sure you will have some thoughts. This is what the graphic said on Instagram. It says quote people in the public

I get verified on social media symbolized with a blue tick. You've got a lot of British language. The process of verification requires them to prove their identity. So everyone knows who is speaking.

Social media companies should make this mandatory for all users. Currently social media is like boarding a plane and not having to show ID that would never happen. If cowards are being supported by a veil of privacy and secrecy, then social media is not a safe space.

It is an airplane. Well, he says arrow plane that allows travelers to wear balaclavas. If cowards want to spout racial rhetoric, then say it with your name, not your username.

We should say that there was a sporting event of some sort. I think soccer and the black guys in the soccer team apparently have been getting a lot of anti black racist commentary on social media. So all of this is is related to that. Go.

Seemingly. Yeah. There was there was a lot in this that I thought was interesting. So as a person who has been on the receiving end of, you know, a lot of hate speech from anonymous people on social media.

Like people. Yes. But like this past week made made five years after the Malangu thing, right. I think that was on Sunday. And so like that was an after that. I have gotten like things from Trump supporters, you know, for years.

And I might do it hasn't been like a huge amount of stuff, but like I'll get things like telling me to kill myself or hateful things in my DMs or whatever from Trumpy people.

And so from that perspective, I got the general gist of this idea of what he was trying to say. But I thought there were a few issues in the analogy that he was drawing. And I wanted to point those things out.

Number one, he says that getting on social media is like getting on an airplane. And I think that analogy just doesn't work. Love interest, Elba, that didn't make sense. Social media, he says is, it is not a safe space when we do it this way.

Social media and ever been a safe space. Like social media is very much like a public square in that like it is just like walking out into the sidewalk. Right. Like it is, you never know who's going to be passing by. You never, you can choose certain people.

But things can get retweeted or shared or whatever. And like they're not for necessity from people that you you chose to be in your social media community.

He talked about it being like Bala Clovis, which I had to to Google because I wasn't sure what that meant. And basically it's like a head and face covering. I just thought that was kind of rich in a time when so many of us have to wear masks when we're going anywhere, especially on airplanes.

And then him saying that it being mandatory is a bit like the mandatory piece of it strikes me as a bit like voter ID. Right. It sounds seemingly logical.

But then when you apply it practically, it excludes a lot of people who either don't have access to ID, who aren't comfortable with putting their ID online, living communities or countries where they're not allowed to speak out.

And social media is used all out for organizing overseas. And so there's that element of it that doesn't necessarily work for me with the idea of it being mandatory.

The thing that I do agree with here is that people should have more accountability for what they post online, especially if it's violent or harmful or threatening language.

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