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#AMessageToElonMusk & everyone like him on this Twitter Blue thing to explain why you all need to stop joking about it & why it's really important to keep the Verification process for its intended purpose: protecting our identities 1/?
#AMessageToElonMusk & everyone like him on this Twitter Blue thing to explain why you all need to stop joking about it & why it's really important to keep the Verification process for its intended purpose: protecting our identities 1/?
Donald Trump blocked me in September 2015, but by then I was already a MAGA target even with something like 7K followers. I had tried to get @verified because I had been on the radio in Portland, but was denied. In Sept 2016, the MAGA cyberharassment really amped up 2/?
I had a real-life run-in with a MAGAt who posted a video of me that went viral in the worst way. He made a fake Twitter profile that looked identical to mine, posting a pic of the house I lived in then plus the landline number. Then they tweeted as "me" inviting people over 3/?
#AMessageToElonMusk
You can, even now, use your influence and power to improve the world in a different way. It doesn't involve taking sides politically. Just giving people a place to talk about ideas, without running into the most offensive and trashy content, is a big deal.
You can, even now, use your influence and power to improve the world in a different way. It doesn't involve taking sides politically. Just giving people a place to talk about ideas, without running into the most offensive and trashy content, is a big deal.
One of the things most people don't realize is that we're not all that different from each other - regardless of what tribe we think we belong to. People have a lot in common. But the only way people ever learn that is by talking. Getting to know each other.
Being able to talk and trade ideas without being flooded by content from people hurling out racial expletives or making fun of crime victims is something that can potentially make you more money in addition to doing something that the world will appreciate you for.
