Peter Strzok on Musk's new Twitter Blue: Pay or we'll suppress your tweets. Power to the people.

[highplainsdem]

Tweeted by Peter Strzok, but others have also been tweeting about this.

Link to tweet

EDITING to post a tweet from writer-director-producer-actor Aaron Stewart-Ahn with video of Musk saying that soon "you'll have to scroll really far to see unverified users." That's in the last 15 seconds or so. Even those currently verified will be losing their verification in a couple of months if they don't start paying Musk $7.99/mo by then. And he's trying to justify this by claiming this will get rid of trolls and spam and bots - as if that fee will stop them.

Link to tweet

[bucolic_frolic]

1. Placing people into categories was the first step to the holocaust

[Celerity]

10. yes

[highplainsdem]

2. Just edited the OP to add video of Musk making it clear you'll soon have to scroll a long way

to find messages from unverified, non-paying Twitter users.

[sprinkleeninow]

3. First glance looked like Twitter Blow...

[Cha]

4. Jesus! Isn't this Extortion &

NOT "free speech".

I won't be getting a blue check mark ever. Except on here.


I noticed Jeff Tiedrich didn't have one today.

[highplainsdem]

5. Definitely looks like extortion to me. He's telling the people who went through the trouble of

getting a verification that meant something that in the future they'll have to pay or see anything they post buried under what's likely to be a tsunami of illiterate drivel from RWNJs.

[Cha]

7. Just saw this Pertinent Tweet!

Link to tweet

[highplainsdem]

8. Thanks, Cha! Not just the Russians, but the Saudis, the Chinese, and any other

government hostile to the US and democracy will be able to flood Twtter with supposedly verified users who are bots or hired trolls. And Musk will give their disinfo priority.

[Cha]

9. Oh right.. Good points!

My Hope is that a Social Media develops Successfully that's not about Fascism, Gaslighting and LIES.

[RockRaven]

6. The people who will pay to push their tweets onto others ARE the trolls, grifters, and state actors

who employ bots... The highlighted portion is doublespeak (no surprise).

[keithbvadu2]

11. Elon's idea of your free speech has a toll.

[localroger]

12. Elon knows how to run a certain type of company

Problem is, Twitter isn't that type of company. You can't make it more profitable by firing half the workers and squeezing the rest for unpaid overtime and paying them in attaboys. You can't sell off the infrastructure because there isn't any. Twitter is a community, one that is going to evaporate with breathtaking speed once the ramifications of Elon's new tenure start to percolate down to individual non-celebrity users. Hey, email and texting still exist. For that matter so does MySpace.