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Maybe it's part of their long term strategy. For now just require validation of fake sounding names. But as soon as you have critical mass, roll out the requirement for everybody to validate their names with valid IDs in order to continue using the system. That would make sense for the current state or requiring IDs for fake names.

Then they can go to advertisers or just blatantly sell the data if it doesn't work out.

Regardless if their intentions are good or bad, this data in the wrong hands can cause nuisance.