Comments on: Tony La Russa sues Twitter over alleged fake tweets

The St. Louis Cardinals manager sues Twitter after discovering a page that made fun of drinken driving and two Cardinals pitchers who died.

[Lucknowlars]

The drunk driving reference may also have been pointed at LaRussa's DUI in Florida. His field sobriety test was recorded and it's hilarious.

[umbrae]

Parodies are allowed by law. If the user made any reference to it being a parody then I am not sure he can do much.

[techman21]

Do we really want Twitter and other service providers to be monitoring content and deciding what's appropriate or not and whether someone is really who they say they are? There are many duplicate names in this world...

[groink_hi]

Solution: Do what the South Koreans do: NATIONAL ID! It is against South Korean law for social web sites to allow people to create accounts without a national ID number. This helps on many levels - from impersonation of famous people to protecting boys from pedophiles.

Think about it... Famous people would need to create accounts on EVERY SOCIAL NETWORK, in order to nail down its identity on the site. Many famous people are not on-line. I for one don't have a Twitter account, and I think many others don't. I don't think people have to go around nailing down their identities before someone else does. I think the U.S. should seriously look into some form of identity authentication. There may actually be a market for a social network start-up to set the precedence, by for example requiring a Verisign or similar personal certificate in order to register for an account. I'd certainly sign up on that system.

[bedney42]

Even here in St. Louis, where Beer + Baseball == God + Rapture, this is being treated as 'roll your eyes' ridiculous.

Get back to managing Tony...