Q: Just how easy to cancel does Elon Musk want you to be? A: so easy your entire online existence becomes deletable in one click

And guess what, new blue check verification is bogus — all VIP’s will eventually get an “Official” badge

Look who got verified!! Blue Check City, here I come!!

Ok, but the joke’s on me.

I had been so looking forward to getting that covetted blue check.

Elon Musk @elonmusk

Twitter’s current lords & peasants system for who has or doesn’t have a blue checkmark is bullshit. Power to the people! Blue for $8/month.

I would pay twice that to be truly verified because it means so much to me: that I’m really Sarah Reynolds, I really live in Washington, DC, and I’ve gotten to purchase advertiseable proof that I’m exactly who I say I am: a writer, a content creator, a red-blooded American (lol).

And ostensibly, Elon Musk also wanted that “real twitter account status” for anyone willing to pony up the $8.00 a month: “One of the reasons that @elonmusk wants to charge for the blue checkmark is to blowout all these bots, fake, and “keyboard warrior” accounts.”

Right? Right. “Exactly,” says Mr. Musk.

Not quite.

Oh! So you don’t have to reveal your identity to everyone on Twitter, just everyone who works for Twitter and everyone who has access on the back end: the FBI, the NSA, DHS (and others—thank you, PATRIOT Act and Executive Order 12333).

Ok, so it’s bullshit. It’s not a way of eliminating anonymous troll accounts at all. It’s a way to verify, with your banking information, that a particular twitter account is linked to a particular user name, and financial record.

But I figured, what the hell, the IRS has my banking information and I wanted to be able to know exactly what the process entails so I could report back to you guys, too. Worse case scenario, I’m out eight bucks and can cancel the renewal before next month. When I went to sign up on desktop, it told me that Twitter blue is only available for Apple IOS users (for now) and only via the app. So I went back to the twitter app on my iphone. There was no verification process whatsoever, no need to upload a photo of your ID (as was required in the past when I requested verification in 2017 and no one ever replied), and it’s not available for Android users in-app. All you’re doing is buying a monthly subscription that uses your existing Apple ID & payment method to pay for it, no questions asked. So you’re only getting a blue check if you can afford an iPhone or iPad — lol, so much for ending the lords and peasants 2-tiered system.

Words matter and I’m sick of newspeak and doublethink. “Verified” means I am really me. Twitter didn’t even check to see if my user name matches the name on my apple account. All the blue check means is you are a paying user! It should just say “Subscribed.”

All the blue check means is you are a paying user!

As the tweet below says, being verified was originally a way to signal both authenticity and notability …

Now it means neither. One could even say, the blue check doesn’t mean jack!

Oh and all those government and mainstream media blue checked accounts? They will become “Official” accounts with a gray outlined badge.

But there’s actually something far FAR more sinister at work and leave it to Dr Robert Malone to have called it a month ago. The italicized text below is excerpted from his excellent substack post you can read here.

Musk’s bigger plan for Twitter is to turn it into a “super app” that “acts as an operating system for people’s digital lives.”

Musk recently stated at Tesla’s annual shareholder meeting

“It’s a pretty grand vision. And obviously that could be started from scratch, But I think Twitter would help accelerate that by three to five years.”

In recent days, Elon has tweeted his intention to make twitter messages as securely encrypted as they (supposedly) are on Signal, precluding a need for that additional app in your life; removing the character limit per tweet to make twitter your new favorite place to blog, precluding a need for your own website or substack; bringing back vine and making it better than tiktok, but actually, also making twitter your new youtube channel as well by removing any time limit for video uploads. And he even promised he could make the payout for content creators better than youtube!

People might say, anti-trust laws will keep that from happening. Well, 3 years ago before I had to wear a mask through Christmas Eve mass and all church singing was cancelled to prevent the spread of a de facto cold, and before it was legal to extort people into submitting to an experimental medical procedure, I would have thought that too. Now, all I know is we live in hell and Mr Musk actually changed his twitter location to reflect that!!

(He has since changed it back.)

But but but … he’s a free speech absolutist!

He was. Something changed.

Elon Musk @elonmusk

By “free speech”, I simply mean that which matches the law. I am against censorship that goes far beyond the law. If people want less free speech, they will ask government to pass laws to that effect. Therefore, going beyond the law is contrary to the will of the people.

So much for absolute free speech. And talk about begging the question. There’s an assumption in line 3 (a false premise) that people ask their governments to pass laws. It’s totally bizarre (illogical). People barely give a shit about voting (in the United States, less than half the eligible population shows up on election day - and that’s IF it’s a Presidential election!) to say even less about the DIY wisdom tooth extraction people act like you’re asking them to perform when you suggest they pick up a telephone and call their legislator to ask them to vote a certain way on a given bill. LMAO - what the hell are you talking about, Elon???

Then in line 4 he says, “going beyond the law is contrary to the will of the people.” But for that to be true, “staying within the law is consistent with the will of the people” would have to also be true. That’s quite the assumption, and he offers no evidence to back up such a broad claim. In contrast, the writers of the US Constitution specifically delineated their desire to avoid direct democracy (i.e. the will of the people) in order to prevent the “tyranny of the majority.” Representative government (in the US, our democratic republic, also known as a constitutional republic) might lead to laws being passed that are consistent with the will of the people. And other times, definitely will not. By design! By the founding fathers’ strategic pre-meditated design.

Ok, so are we to infer that he’s totally on board with censoring speech as long as it’s within the law? Yes, read line 2 again!!!

So, I wonder, how easy will it become to cancel someone when their entire digital presence is on one app? As easy as a click of a mouse. But I suspect that the merge of all apps into one will be slow-walked … and I mean, slowwwwwlyyyy, over years of time.

So let’s start refusing now. Prediction: this $8.00/month is to see how many people take the bait. (I did and I’m glad I did so I could report back to you. I won’t renew.) Then it’ll be reduced to $4/month. Then it’ll become free but required.

It has begun.

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