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I strongly disagree, and you can look at Twitter for an example, with bots now often using 'verified' accounts. For someone running a bot business, paying $100

I strongly disagree, and you can look at Twitter for an example, with bots now often using 'verified' accounts. For someone running a bot business, paying $1000/year for some bots doesn't change anything for their business, they're already paying much more than a few bucks per month to people who post with the bots. On the other hand, that payment will absolutely be a barrier of entry for the genuine users.

loceng 3y ago
A bot with massive reach is worth paying for to the bad actor, but that is also due to the algorithms giving an outweighed reach due to their numbers. And your point is anecdotal and not from a scientifically derived process - intuitively, logically, cost does reduce the amount of bots by at least some degree. Whether the value of allowing a "free" and open wild wild west environment, with its externalized-unpaid for costs, outweighs the limiting of access - filtering through a process before people qualify as trustworthy enough and/or contributing enough to the platform (if unable to pay yet - where bartering with oversight is a possible option, an energy exchange type program for access) would be very difficult to calculate but intuitively I'd argue slowing the actions of potential bad actors or an ideological mob who's arguably less likely to pay for a platform where truth that "hurts" them is allowed due to relatively free speech on the platform, would far outweigh the drowning that bad actors would attempt to do by weaponizing an ideological mob to interfere in critical-adult conversation, attempting to blind people by stirring up emotions, echoing-parroting propaganda narrative talking points to trigger dormant programming, etc. I'd next propose that government fund each person a stipend to spend at the centralizing platform(s) of their choice, if society as a whole considers access to such communications-systems as a necessity; I'm not one for liberal-excessive spending on social programs, however all-or-nothing thinking isn't useful either - and certain base needs, if we're going to lift everyone up with a rising tide, getting their feedback - allowing them a voice and necessary tools in today's age - and preventing them from drowning, then a certain amount of minimal support is necessary, but no more than that so hard work and merit is what then is rewarded.

loceng 3y ago

A bot with massive reach is worth paying for to the bad actor, but that is also due to the algorithms giving an outweighed reach due to their numbers. And your point is anecdotal and not from a scientifically derived process - intuitively, logically, cost does reduce the amount of bots by at least some degree. Whether the value of allowing a "free" and open wild wild west environment, with its externalized-unpaid for costs, outweighs the limiting of access - filtering through a process before people qualify as trustworthy enough and/or contributing enough to the platform (if unable to pay yet - where bartering with oversight is a possible option, an energy exchange type program for access) would be very difficult to calculate but intuitively I'd argue slowing the actions of potential bad actors or an ideological mob who's arguably less likely to pay for a platform where truth that "hurts" them is allowed due to relatively free speech on the platform, would far outweigh the drowning that bad actors would attempt to do by weaponizing an ideological mob to interfere in critical-adult conversation, attempting to blind people by stirring up emotions, echoing-parroting propaganda narrative talking points to trigger dormant programming, etc. I'd next propose that government fund each person a stipend to spend at the centralizing platform(s) of their choice, if society as a whole considers access to such communications-systems as a necessity; I'm not one for liberal-excessive spending on social programs, however all-or-nothing thinking isn't useful either - and certain base needs, if we're going to lift everyone up with a rising tide, getting their feedback - allowing them a voice and necessary tools in today's age - and preventing them from drowning, then a certain amount of minimal support is necessary, but no more than that so hard work and merit is what then is rewarded.