Thread by @Mutant187

@LauraMiers Blocking Blue buyers may not be a good idea. But many of us consider this new system itself to be elitist and siloing, because Blue buyers get features the rest of us don’t—most importantly, you get “boosted”. Which means the rest of us are DEboosted. It’s “PAY-for-full-reach”!

@LauraMiers This system bifurcates Twitter into two tiers—those who can easily spare “a few dollars a month”, and those who can’t. The “haves” will rarely even see the tweets of the “have nots”.
We grassroots activists and entrepreneurs will now find it even harder to “reach” the “haves”.

@LauraMiers We peons may not even be able to connect with EACH OTHER as easily anymore, if Blue buyers are boosted in EVERYONE’s feed.
All in all, Twitter’s valuable “free speech”, influencing, and networking opportunities are becoming a paywalled elite good.
#ApartheidClyde strikes again!

@LauraMiers But wait—there’s more!
The pool of those who can easily pay up—plus those who pay with the INTENT of supporting Elmo’s political vision—will skew right/libertarian.
And therefore so will the discourse in this, the de facto national and international Town Square.
THAT’S THE PLAN.

@LauraMiers Elmo said he wanted to foster “free speech” and “citizen journalism”, in this which he himself called the “Town Square”.
He lied.
He—and his financiers—didn’t buy Twitter to facilitate grassroots political organizing and free exposure for creatives.
They came to SABOTAGE it.

@LauraMiers Therefore, to break down and “pay the vig”—pay for play—is to collaborate in this anti-egalitarian scheme.
It’s wrong; and quality accounts (established pros and others alike) should boycott.
If that means #BlockTheBlue—to show that collaborating isn’t all benefit—then so be it.

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