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Twitter is very left leaning.
Again, why then do my trans friends experience regular drive-by harassment?
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Good? Why are there people who think it should be a status symbol, to by recognized by twitter staff of all people as "noteworthy?" It's ridiculous and more than a little pathetic that people considered it a valid status symbol to begin with, and it should be dismantled as such. It's not called a "status symbol and we like this person mark" it's called "verified".
If anything it has become the opposite. “Blue checkmarks” is almost a slur these days.
I have a blue tick on Twitter but there is no way in hell I'm paying $20 per month for it. I live in India and $240 per year is a fair chunk of money for people in many parts of Asia. It costs more than my software subscriptions. Only rich celebs will keep it. I guess Musk just doesn't care about the lower income countries out there.
why do you need some blue tick next to your handle?
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Again, why then do my trans friends experience regular drive-by harassment?
Because everyone gets harassed on the internet, and your one anecdotal experience does not mean that Twitter as a whole does not have a left leaning political bias.
"Employees working on the project were told on Sunday that they need to meet a deadline of November 7th to launch the feature or they will be fired." Well I hope the meme that elon is some kind of benevolent and inspiring leader is truly dead and buried.
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> I’m sure this has nothing to do with the MASSIVE amount of debt Twitter is now in and desperately needing money. The irony is that even if every current Verified user paid in, it'd still not do much for Twitter's debt.
I have really enjoyed Twitter. But based on some basic numbers I’ve seen, it wouldn’t surprise me if nothing Elon might do can save Twitter. It just seems doomed in the next few years purely from debt . He may slow it down a bit. He could easily accelerate it. Companies that far in debt just don’t survive.
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Because everyone gets harassed on the internet, and your one anecdotal experience does not mean that Twitter as a whole does not have a left leaning political bias.
But wouldn't a "blatantly left leaning" organization stop transphobic harassment?
I was thinking that they should charge blue checkmark by the # of followers you have. the more followers you have, the more you have to pay. I wonder if it would incentivize people not to pay for fake followers as at least was a problem in the past.
Buying followers for someone you dislike and then accusing them of doing so has been a strategy for quite some time; increasing the load on the victim does not help. Also, this would force large users into monetizing their account (assuming they are not super-rich).
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Beyond celebrity it addressed the issue of impersonation - which will return as a problem
Anybody famous enough to warrant a special verification process can probably afford $20/mo.