[littlestymaar]

What about "would you give up your account name" "No" "Ok fine, I'll have to find a new name. Have a nice day sir.".

This story pretty much sounds like “All animals are equals but some are more equals than others”[1] to me.

[1]Georges Orwell Animal Farm (his best book IMO)

[jdsully]

Isn't the whole premise of royalty that we are explicitly not equal?

[littlestymaar]

But as far as I know, US citizens[1] don't recognize sovereignty of the British Crown since 1776… In that particular days, they even ratified a text saying “that all men are created equal”.

[1] (and Instagram is owned byt a majority of American citizens)

[lucozade]

> US citizens[1] don't recognize sovereignty of the British Crown

While that is clearly true, a surprising number of US citizens do, in my experience, recognize the celebrity of British royals.

The number of times I've been asked about Prince William's children is, quite frankly, astonishing. To such an extent that I even Googled their names so I did't appear too much like I couldn't give a crap.

> they even ratified a text saying “that all men are created equal”.

Right, but those Founding Fathers were pretty good at words. They were very careful to not say that everyone is equal. Largely because most of them didn't actually believe that. What they were most concerned about was someone not lording it over them. They were entirely relaxed about lording it over others, for example.

[jdsully]

The story is about a UK royal taking the handle of another UK citizen. Instagram must recognize the sovereignty of the UK crown while doing business in the UK.

[sbr464]

Great reference. Perfectly fitting.