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Re:Musk’s X revokes paid blue check from United Auto Workers... by krapp on Friday September 15, 2023 @03:48PM (#37528274)
Removing the checkmark from the UAW's Twitter account is in no way regulating the institution itself. Musk even relented and put the checkmark back.

Don't get me wrong - the unchecked power of billionaires in a society converging towards military industrial oligarchy and centralized control of consensus reality through the media, full of easily controlled and manipulated voters pathologically afraid of effective government, is definitely a problem worth being afraid of. But this isn't an example of it. This is just another "rich babyman throws his toys out of the pram" moment for Musk.

Re:Musk’s X revokes paid blue check from United Auto Workers... by seryoiupfurds on Friday September 15, 2023 @04:45PM (#37528902)
> unchecked power

Hah.