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'Verified' Is Now a Derogatory Term on Twitter (theoutline.com)
From an article on The Outline: Since 2009, Twitter has added a blue checkmark symbol to certain accounts that have been deemed "verified," which means "that an account of public interest is authentic," according to Twitter. For some, the verified distinction is coveted. For others, it's become a dirty word. "Verifieds" or "blue checks" are the elite, the establishment. Since many members of the media are verified, they have also become associated, for some, with the perceived liberal bias of the fourth estate. Conservatives, alt-righters, and Donald Trump fans have noticed that when Trump tweets, there is invariably a flood of "blue check liberals" responding in a negative way. There is also the perception that Twitter, a California company, is biased toward liberals. Also, according to Twitter, there are now about 250,000 people who're verified on the site, some of which are for unknown reasons.
tends to have a liberal bias.
Get over it.
Most journalists are registered Democrats. And I've lived long enough to see how they react and write articles depending on who is in the white house. Why would this surprise anyone? With the dissolution of many schools of journalism at universities across the nation, most who have been educated in the last decade are English or Speech Comm majors whose departments have a definite liberal bias.
Sorry it's not only perceived but it's quite real. Why not just admit it and stop pretending you're unbiased?
So what you're saying is that alt-nazi trumpanzees consider it derogatory? Talk about a misleading headline. Nobody cares what those guys think.
Trump does.
The shepherds did so well protecting the flock that the sheep no longer believed that wolves existed.
I believe, "Anonymous Coward" sums up your beliefs quite succinctly.
Give a man a fire and he'll be warm for a day. But light a man on fire and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.
Because conservatives are well-known as pragmatic and open-minded people.
However that is why you insinuated.
The word you wanted in that sentence is "what", not "why".
You can't say people see things that aren't there.
Yes. I can. They do that all day, mostly because of shit reading comprehension.
But nobody will ever come to the conclusion of what he said based on your words.
What?
Look, it's very simple. Try to get this through your inbred skull. The check mark is not intended as an endorsement, but some idiots who are very very stupid will take it as such. Consequently, it will be reasonable for twitter to remove that verification from those users whose very, very stupid audience takes the check mark as an endorsement. That obviously includes Milo the professional Troll, because all of his fans are very, very stupid people.
Twitter goes out of their way to point out that verification is not an endorsement, and removing verification from some users because their fans are dumb enough to think otherwise is not validation of the idea that verification is an endorsement. Do you even logic, bro?
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
But, the removal of the check is effectively and apparently a removal of endorsement.
The removal of the check is a removal of apparent endorsement. To whom is it apparent? Idiots. By the same token, the removal of the check is apparently a removal of endorsement — to idiots. Why is it only apparent to idiots? Because the check mark was never an endorsement to begin with. You can't have it both ways, which is what you're accusing me of, in typical gaslighting fashion. See, I'm being consistent: It's not removal of endorsement because it was never endorsement, and the public interest is better-served by removing it so that the people who are confused by such things don't have to think about whether it means endorsement.
Now, you might try to argue that it is effectively a removal of endorsement to Milo's audience of troll suckers, but since it was always made clear that it was not an endorsement, it isn't that. It's a removal of confusion.
Milo's fans are to blame for the removal of the verified mark. Twitter is simply protecting its interests, which last I checked was a conservative ideal.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"