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By validating each account with a passport and ensuring that only one account per passport is allowed.


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SoftTalker10/01/2024

Aside from the practical and technical problems you're greatly limiting your audience. Most people who don't travel internationally don't have a passport. In Europe this might be a smaller number but in the USA and Canada I would guess this is a majority of people. Non-citizens won't have a passport. Most young adults will not have one. Many older people will have let theirs expire.

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lobsterthief10/01/2024

What about people who buy stolen passports on the dark web? Or passport details that get leaked in data breaches

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n_ary10/01/2024

How do I know that, you will handle my passport data with care? Banks I can trust(despite numerous leaks), you as a random social media or online service with zero regulation, I won’t. Plus this opens up immense ways to sue you for collecting unnecessary data and personal information, unless you are massive and have an army or lawyer or have a KYC requirement.

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kjkjadksj10/01/2024

Why would I ever give my passport to your website or anyone elses?

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metalliqaz10/01/2024

who is going to upload their passport to use social media?

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cynicalpeace10/01/2024

No passport, but perhaps face picture that is also encoded with on device verifiable token.

I think there is actually a use case for blockchain (don't pile on!) for this. I have a vague idea of a unique token that goes on every camera and can be verified from the blockchain. If a picture has the token you know it's real... like i said, it's vague idea but i think it's coming

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gregw13410/01/2024

Why not require a non-voip phone number instead of passport?

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