Elon Musk, the CEO of Twitter/X, is floating an idea that he's had before to remedy the problem of social media bots: charging people to use social media.
The best way, IMO to combat bullshit on social media is to make people submit their personal information (ie govt ID etc) to have an account. I don’t support or condone that, but it would cut down on trolling and other shit dramatically. He’s not wrong that charging would stymie bot accounts, but it won’t stop them, and will piss off your user base in the process.
The best way, IMO to combat bullshit on social media is to make people submit their personal information (ie govt ID etc) to have an account. I don’t support or condone that, but it would cut down on trolling and other shit dramatically. He’s not wrong that charging would stymie bot accounts, but it won’t stop them, and will piss off your user base in the process.
that’s an insane barrier to entry just to browse social media
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