[ExI] pay to not play

[Adrian Tymes]

That fits the legal definition of blackmail.("pay us or the public sees
this"), especially the version where payment only suppresses for a limited
time, and as such is illegal.  Twitter would be ordered to cease the
practice quickly, and whoever was responsible for implementing it could go
to jail.

On Sun, Dec 4, 2022, 6:28 AM spike jones via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

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> Hey cool, idea!
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> The information coming out now about Twitter shows a bunch of requests to
> take down information.  Twitter complied, using Twitter’s resources, for
> which advertisers pay (that’s Twitter’s revenue stream.)  Alternative: have
> people who request a post be removed pay to have it removed.  Keep a record
> of what was removed and when it was removed.  Payments for removal would
> have an expiration, after which the paid-to-remove post would go up.
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> Then the content moderation would be effectively done, not by paid
> professionals at Twitter’s expense, not by advertisers, not even by users,
> but by paying Twitter customers.  That could make a buttload of money!
> Sheesh that infamous laptop alone could be worth billions, perhaps the
> first trillion dollar news item.
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> spike
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