> While we have always welcomed the opportunity to hear ideas from partners on what will help, including from within the football community, our data suggests that ID verification would have been unlikely to prevent the abuse from happening - as the accounts we suspended themselves were not anonymous. Of the permanently suspended accounts from the Tournament, 99% of account owners were identifiable.
Even higher than expected but absolutely no surprise.
Full name policies prevents the thoughtful, the vulnerable and the shy from communicating, not the trolls and abusers who either just create fake but real looking accounts or who doesn't care.