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Wasn't this the point of the blue checkmark originally?
by bilekas 4y ago
Wasn't this the point of the blue checkmark originally?
- seanhunter 4y agoYes. It’s almost like it wasn’t “bullshit”[1] but served a useful purpose and that the policy of believing that all speech that doesn’t break the law should be protected wasn’t fully thought through. [1] https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1587498907336118274 https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1587498907336118274
- KerrAvon 4y agoThe problem is that it was always at the whim of some opaque internal Twitter process. There always should have been an actual process for anyone to be verified. It creates resentment when the criteria for verification are not transparent. Is this going to fix it? No, one of two things will happen: (1) Musk will end up with a gigantic tax write-off when he sells what’s left of Twitter to Verizon for 140M two years from now. (2) Musk will turn it into something that is successful by some definition but isn’t Twitter and no longer commands the same attention from the world at large.
- JohnTHaller 4y agoIt was. Now it's just an $8 a month symbol. The folks changing their name to Elon Musk were pointing out the stupidity of this change.