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

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.

        • xX_fnord_Xx@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          1 year 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.

      • 🐱TheCat@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        71·
        1 year ago

        I’m not on twitter and never was, but I’m not silly enough to think billionaires don’t shape my world in a million fucking ways with their unilateral decisions. Elon here has a HUGE one recently in deciding to disable starlink during a Ukraine offensive.

        Trying to assist his rich buddies with fucking with the union is a lower tier crime but still its fuckery that affects a lot of people.

        Then we’ve got other rich asshats selling state secrets for money.

        Billionaires are a liability and everyone needs to realize it.

    • BigNote@lemm.eeEnglish
      1·
      1 year 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.worldEnglish
      13·
      1 year 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.