😂 I’m not even opposed to charging for access. But I think he’s focused way too much on pushing that, not enough of freedom. Should be the reverse. If it’s a platform people find valuable then they will pay. And the free experience should still be useful and freedom-focused, even if it needs ads or some other model to offset the cost of it. But I don’t see that happening with the decisions he’s making.
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I have no problem paying for Twitter in principle, but at very least it should mean there are no ads. Either the user is the customer, or the advertisers are. I'm not paying if I am not the customer.
Also, given that "a lie can travel half way around the world, before the truth puts on its shoes", I am not going to pay for a platform that welcomes the well-organised and well-funded bad actors who are using it to spread conspiracy theories and dis-information.