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X revokes paid blue check from United Auto Workers after strike called (arstechnica.com)
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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.

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[–] 54 points 2 years ago (3 children)

It’s infuriating that people are beholden to this fucking loser.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    I was not aware anyone was being required to use the twat platform.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    It's the network effect. People still use it because other people are there.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years 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.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    This is a win for UAW though. They are trying to unionize Tesla's workers and this behavior gives them an edge on the already labor-friendly NLRB by showing that Elon is actively anti-union.

    If anyone thinks for a moment that union organizers don't actively plan this kind of thing out, I can assure that they do. It's part of their job description. My union is a lot smaller than UAW and our organizers get up to all kinds of subterfuge and shenanigans, so I can only imagine what the UAW people are doing.

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  • [–] -2 points 2 years ago

    The biggest losers are the people who cannot read for more than 10 seconds at a time.

    This article was updated to include information about a Twitter policy to temporarily remove checkmarks from verified accounts that change their profile pictures.

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