Musk’s X revokes paid blue check from United Auto Workers after strike called
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After a report called out Musk's union-busting, UAW's blue check got reinstated.

X revokes paid blue check from United Auto Workers after strike called::After a report called out Musk’s union-busting, UAW’s blue check got reinstated.

      • xX_fnord_Xx@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        Yeah. I’m not famous at all, but I could imagine it would be troublesome trying to migrate a popular account with thousands of followers to another service.

        Even if you were successful, you’d probably only retain a quarter of your followers because most people can’t be ballsed to dl/sign up for another app.

        Half your followers on Twitter are probably bots or inactive anyhow, so take that as you will.

    • 🐱TheCat@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      71·
      1 year ago

      I’m not on twitter and never was, but I’m not silly enough to think billionaires don’t shape my world in a million fucking ways with their unilateral decisions. Elon here has a HUGE one recently in deciding to disable starlink during a Ukraine offensive.

      Trying to assist his rich buddies with fucking with the union is a lower tier crime but still its fuckery that affects a lot of people.

      Then we’ve got other rich asshats selling state secrets for money.

      Billionaires are a liability and everyone needs to realize it.