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What the hell does "corrupted" even mean here? He's in full control of the platform. Is it being corrupted by the fucking chaos gods?
If I had to imagine a real answer here it's that no one kept track of why people originally got the blue check and so now he can't selectively uncheck people he does not like.
I'm guessing they've decided that removing blue checks from people they don't want to have them is too difficult and will come with too much of a blowback.
So what they will do is sunset the blue check entirely to remove absolutely everyone from it, then they'll bring in a new system and start from scratch while refusing to give it to anyone that is remotely left wing.
I just assumed he really wants Stephen King's $8 but I'm sure shutting down leftists is also on the plate.
The premium is a separate thing to verification. A verification system is still a necessity for the site to run properly so it's got to be something other than just that.
Am I misunderstanding that he's ending the verification system then? I know he's already been over this but he does operate like a drunk toddler.
He's ending it but you shouldn't expect it to stay gone for long. It opens up too much impersonation.
Yes. Nurgle has cast a divine plague upon their code base. Any who attempt to work on it become infected and turn into putrid sacks of grease and bile.
It's just like when he said "the tech stack is sooooo crazy we can't do anything" it doesn't mean anything, it's just an excuse.
He invents an inherently corrupt neoliberal monetization of an existing system to exploit a majority accepted "norm" of trusted identification of individual users and now claims it's corrupt.
:shocked-pikachu:
He's not talking about the $8 blue checks here, he's talking about the free ones that the marginally famous had when he took over. He wants his $8 a month from Stephen King.
I support the rights of our blue checkmark overlords to signify their social status with a blue checkmark.
Its actually worse. He claims his new monetization scam system is corruption free, but the old legacy system is too corrupt to maintain
lol but those little checks are the only reason The Specials stay on the platform
Elon ends Corruption in the same time Vietnam renews its anticorruption drive.
Wtf one struggle :my-hero: :left-unity-2: :uncle-ho-2:
