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42 sats \ 1 reply \ @sox 10h \ parent \ on: EU revenue from US tech fines > EU revenue from EU tech taxes charts_and_numbers
Yeah, I didn’t like the previous blue check either. What prevents bots or deceptive profiles from buying a blue check?
I mean the real problem is that you can now buy a blue check. There's no verification involved, and everybody can create a new disposable credit card if that's the verification
meta has been fined for that too, heavier than X’s fine
Ultimately nothing- it's just a minor deterrent but at least it incurs some cost. Same as sats here.
To me the blue check clearly means "I'm paying money for this account so I'm more likely to be a human" and/or "I support this website through my subscription", and/or "I'm trying to earn Elon bucks"
They have done good job recently surfacing the geolocation of posters so we can see who has been larping as an american. Along with community notes they at least appear to doing more than every other major platform. God only knows what's even happening on TikTok.
In the end I'm not sure it will matter as we rapidly spiral towards a dead internet.
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