The thing you’re doing wrong here is taking the word of a media outlet that constantly writes in bad faith about stuff the writers are personally pissy about to understand how the verification process worked beforehand.

My neighbor wanted to add onto his back deck, so he had to go to the zoning board of appeals. A bunch of his fellow townsfolk jerked him around for about 30 minutes, then pounded a gavel and promised to “review the submission.” We sold our house and moved before he had an answer.

These are the same fucking people who wrung hands over fake “death panels” when the ACA was going through Congress, just because Democrats wanted to make sure end of life care was supported. It’s just ridiculous, the hypocrisy. Don’t ever let them get away with saying they are for “small government.” 

I’m sure this would be a timely process and not dragged out at all to end up with “Oh, you passed the 15-week mark, too bad.”

Oh, great. So now Republicans want the equivalent of an HOA on bodily autonomy?

That was my first thought as well. Do you have any idea how easy it will be to bribe these people? It won't take much. 

On case by case basis? W.T. Actual F. is wrong w/ these people? 

See, if I had neighbors like that, I’d support them getting abortions because I don’t want assholes like that raising kids.

And it would totally be populated by the kind of ghouls who currently sit on HOA boards. Busy bodies & Karens all the way down...

What happens when some person allows for “not ruining that nice young man’s life” by community shaming someone into an abortion? [not really the subject of the article, but a simple leap from its premise]

He tried to back out of it, basically, by claiming Twitter was full of bots. It’s definitely got some merit to it, but he didn’t do any audits before making the offer? Or something? Just complete incompetence on his end. It’s pretty amazing considering everyone this he’s some sore of business messiah.

It seems to me that he’s missing the part where charging for the blue check immediately makes it worthless. It doesn’t matter if it’s $1 or $100/month. If you can buy it it’s not a security feature.

Yeah it was never actually for expertise - it was basically “are you important enough that people might pretend to be you so you need to prove it’s actually you tweeting,” with what was “important enough” never really explained. 

And as my fourth act, I will pivot the site to porn.

E. Musk: Free Speech Absolutist*

this would be pathetically comical if the stakes weren’t so grave.

I’ll never understand why he didn’t just pay the 7bn$ penalty or whatever, instead of going through with paying almost 50bn$?! He’s just making one bad decision after another and he seems like he’s basing all this on his own ego, like he’s drinking his own koolaid.

As my third act as CEO, I will contradict my stated motivation of protecting free speech by charging people, exposing once and for all that sheer pettiness and impulsivity motivated me to blow $44 billion and I'm desperately trying to salvage this mistake.

We need to pay the bills.

As my first act as CEO, I would like to assure our advertisers that I will not allow Twitter to become a lawless, toxic hellscape.