If Twitter actually starts requiring new accounts (and perhaps existing ones later on) to pay a fee in order to be able to like or post, I don’t want to see a single right winger praising Elon again because this is magnitudes worse than anything that happened under the previous management
It’s not about having to pay, it’s the fact that this essentially ends anonymity on the site - forget about VPNs, there will always be a payment with your name on it tied to your account that can be used to identify you.
Don’t delude yourself into thinking you can pay anonymously online in the current year, you can’t (they’re certainly not going to allow Monero, and apart from that crypto is basically KYC’d to the point where you will have to use your real name at some point of the process). That makes it trivially easy for malicious governments to get the real identity of posters and leaves even the most careful of VPN users one data breach away from being identified.
