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X revokes paid blue check from United Auto Workers after strike called (arstechnica.com)
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X revokes paid blue check from United Auto Workers after strike called::After a report called out Musk's union-busting, UAW's blue check got reinstated.

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[–] LillyPip@lemmy.ca 52 points 2 years ago (3 children)

It’s infuriating that people are beholden to this fucking loser.

[–] grayman@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I was not aware anyone was being required to use the twat platform.

[–] LillyPip@lemmy.ca 13 points 2 years ago

Beholden by choice. They’re simps.

[–] SlopppyEngineer@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It's the network effect. People still use it because other people are there.

[–] xX_fnord_Xx@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Yeah. I'm not famous at all, but I could imagine it would be troublesome trying to migrate a popular account with thousands of followers to another service.

Even if you were successful, you'd probably only retain a quarter of your followers because most people can't be ballsed to dl/sign up for another app.

Half your followers on Twitter are probably bots or inactive anyhow, so take that as you will.

[–] BigNote@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

This is a win for UAW though. They are trying to unionize Tesla's workers and this behavior gives them an edge on the already labor-friendly NLRB by showing that Elon is actively anti-union.

If anyone thinks for a moment that union organizers don't actively plan this kind of thing out, I can assure that they do. It's part of their job description. My union is a lot smaller than UAW and our organizers get up to all kinds of subterfuge and shenanigans, so I can only imagine what the UAW people are doing.

[–] NotOverSeether@lemmy.world -2 points 2 years ago

The biggest losers are the people who cannot read for more than 10 seconds at a time.

This article was updated to include information about a Twitter policy to temporarily remove checkmarks from verified accounts that change their profile pictures.