X (Twitter) to soon begin charging $1 annual subscription in order to tweet and interact.

Next move must be to charge users deleting their accounts $1. And Elon can sell your data to make more money.

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    Sounds more like a way to ID everyone on the platform. And perhaps normalize this practice for other platforms going forward.

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      Quick access to massive credit card info as well. Micro step to “the everything app”?

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        Yeah this is a high possibility.

        People might think he’s just a bad businessman, but I think they’re overlooking the fact that he’s an evil businessman relentlessly pursuing his dreams of dictatorship based off of actual dictatorships… that is also very bad at business.

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        They won’t see credit card info unless they become a payment merchant, at which time they have to pass insanely strict regulations.

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        No, your identity is worth negative $1. You’re paying to give it away. He didn’t offer $1 to get it.