Is Free Speech Under Attack in this Country?

Garmel said:
That eight dollars a month seems like a lot of money to some people.
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The funny thing to me is that $8 a month can be a lot of money, just not to the people currently verified on Twitter. There’s a fun little discrepancy here where both sides look like disingenuous assholes to me. The people bitching about their blue checks costing $8 are able to pay but will act like martyrs for doing so. Twitter meanwhile pretends to be giving power to the people by charging them money for a set of pixels next to their name that will instantly become meaningless to the user-base.
 
mqt said:
The funny thing to me is that $8 a month can be a lot of money, just not to the people currently verified on Twitter. There’s a fun little discrepancy here where both sides look like disingenuous assholes to me. The people bitching about their blue checks costing $8 are able to pay but will act like martyrs for doing so. Twitter meanwhile pretends to be giving power to the people by charging them money for a set of pixels next to their name that will instantly become meaningless to the user-base.
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Totally.

I remember the days when some of the journos and bloggers I followed celebrated the day they got their meaningless status symbol. Complaining about Elon charging for “something that does nothing” is drenched in irony.

This whole thing is akin to Star Belly Sneetches
 
There is an interesting economic issue. For many people, the value of twitter is the content. It is an issue on other platforms (some as seemingly far removed as cable) as well. How to divvy up the pie between the platform and providers of content. Without getting into the blue check thang, I think there is a case to be made (a strong case) that the platform (and users) should be paying some of the content providers. It will be interesting to see if this is a direction twitter takes.
 
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Garmel said:
So the $8 a month fee won't end free speech as we know it?
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Sure won't. I've made the point on numerous occasions that a company doesn't owe anyone the right to do what they want on their platform. It is a commercial enterprise after all. And its brand (reputation) is one of its most important assets. I wouldn't presume to tell Elon (or the former owners) how to go about running their business. I'm just a spectator to those decisions, albeit sometimes a bemused and opinionated spectator.

Oh and it is NOT tyranny that yelp took down my review. Y'all seem a lil confused about the point I was making. And it is NOT tyranny for twitter to charge whatever it wants. And to decide what content to allow/promote/whatever. If it doesn't want to allow me to sell AK-47's on twitter it is certainly NOT an infringement of muh rights.
 
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Bess Kalb
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Imagine being a billionaire and instead of drinking passion fruit cocktails

in a private lagoon in Kauai with Beyoncé and the Dalai Lama

you’re an internet punching bag hunched over his phone begging

strangers on Twitter for $8.
 
[Tw]1588928097218273280[/tw] just want to say its elon's platform and it's up to him to decide what's best for his bizness
 
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