Alex WildIf this policy is true, anyone with enough money to run a verified Twitter bot farm can buy the suppression of any account and bury any story they dislike.
That’s the end. Right there.
Warren Terra@alexwild
There's all sorts of things to hate about this idea. There's the organized, commercialized possibility you mention, but this mechanism also presents more intrinsic problems, even when it isn't being deliberately manipulated. Most of the people buying Twitter Blue are Elon's most pathetic and toxic incel fanboys; if you displease them, if you're unpopular with that demographic specifically, you'll now get disappeared on Twitter.
There's all sorts of things to hate about this idea. There's the organized, commercialized possibility you mention, but this mechanism also presents more intrinsic problems, even when it isn't being deliberately manipulated. Most of the people buying Twitter Blue are Elon's most pathetic and toxic incel fanboys; if you displease them, if you're unpopular with that demographic specifically, you'll now get disappeared on Twitter.