[joenathanone]

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He starts off with "Power to the people", but this is just "power to the people with money"(which is the status quo). If you don't have $8/mo disposable income to spend on a vanity feature, then what you have to say will be overshadowed by the people who do.

[memish]

The status quo is that you need to be a Lord to get the blue check.

This makes it available to anyone who is able to get a Netflix subscription.

It goes from a status symbol to a commodity. The Lords will hate it because it makes it available to the peasants.

[oneeyedpigeon]

Not in my experience. I follow plenty of blue tick accounts that aren't lords, merely notable within a niche.

[nisegami]

He did say it will be scaled by PPP by region, which is interesting. Curious to see how that will play out, if taken literally I should be paying like $3 USD which seems fine to me but is still out of reach of most of my country for logistic reasons rather than outright money reasons.

[aniforprez]

That part of the thread pretty much proved that he hasn't thought out this whole scheme at all. He's spitballing in public on twitter

[rodgerd]

"You get as much speech as you want to pay for" is probably the single least surprising take from the VC elite.