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So much for free speech on X; Musk confirms new users must soon pay to post (arstechnica.com)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

I stole this line from someone else, but its great.

Elon Musk has invented fee speech, not free speech.

[–] [email protected] 55 points 8 months ago (2 children)

It's a clever line, but Musk hasn't invented a single goddamn thing in his life.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 8 months ago

Hey that's not fair - he invents his own narrative about reality all the time.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, pay to post was Something Awful founder lowtax's idea.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

SA used to be great. That move actually made the forums a pretty good place for a while because it kept out a few demographics including bots and kids.

Something Awful, YTMND and Newgrounds were basically the comedic engines of the internet back then.

Good 'ol pre-YouTube internet.