Re:Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources
by ssl232 on Monday April 25, 2022 @09:58AM
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It's not $10 per site, it's $10 one off. You would get the money back almost immediately if your request is not abusive. I'd be interested to know how many twitter users couldn't scrape together a once off $10.
Re:Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources
by CydeWeys on Monday April 25, 2022 @10:08AM
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So who's going to fund this adjudicatory system? Because lots of little $10 deposits, that are fully refundable, won't do it.
Re:Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources
by ssl232 on Monday April 25, 2022 @10:58AM
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You should ask Michael Saylor to be sure how he proposes this will all work, but he did mention his company (MicroStrategy) spends $1M/year on DDOS mitigation. I expect if Lightning ends up as cheap and fast as he and others are saying it will be, it could be funded by companies as a cost of doing business in the same way they fund the electricity and hardware for serving their websites.
It's actually the sort of thing I could see CloudFlare etc. providing, so each website doesn't need to implement it themselves.
Re:Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources
by devteambravo on Monday April 25, 2022 @10:12AM
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Who decides whether your request is abusive?
Re:Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources
by ssl232 on Monday April 25, 2022 @10:54AM
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The site. They stake their reputation on being fair. Unfair sites will lose users. This is basically what happens already with moderation, it's just adding a small monetary penalty to bad actors to discourage them.
Though it will also exclude people that can't afford it. I'm thinking of poor people and children. The kind of people who use computers at the local library, because they can't afford their own device (and more expensively) the Internet connection to make it useful.
And yes, I realize that some of the above groups are also absolute shits, who I would keep off the Internet (if I could) until they decided to grow up.