Elon may be reversing course as it was pointed out that his plan to remove legacy blue checks and let people hide their paid blue checks so they wouldn’t be made fun of anymore (or blocked en masse) wouldn’t work if he also changed For you to only show paid accounts while no legacy accounts switched.
Elon Musk's Twitter Strips New York Times of Verified Checkmark
The New York Times lost its verified status on Twitter Sunday, which appears to have happened only after Elon learned they weren't planning on paying $1,000/month for a gold checkmark.www.tmz.com
I am sure republicans are not up in arms over this. It’s an asshat move. It’s not “unconstitutional” or conspiratorial targeting of dems. He can do it, and he did.
This is when cancel culture is good. Can it go overboard? Sure. It’s also protected speech and in a case like Musk, operating his company as if he’s a rabble rouser trying to appeal to MAGA, it’s entirely appropriate.
Now he’s trying to hide the paid with the true blue checks. If he removes the trye “legacy” blue checks that won’t work. Of course he might still do it … it was supposed to happen already was “pushed back several weeks” unless an account said they weren’t going to pay and Elon threw a tantrum like in @GermanSuplex ’s post.
Edit: or as Patton Oswald so eloquently put it:
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