'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.

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Re:Seems about right.

[Anonymous Coward]

Indeed, and that reason is that women overwhelmingly don't like to do difficult non-social work, so they go into soft degrees like "media studies" in school instead of something like engineering or programming. As a result, "the media" is also overwhelmingly controlled by its huge female college-infected faux "liberal" workforce.

Yeah, Twitter (and Google and every other big internet company) may have a bunch of those evil-because-penis "straight cis white dudes" in top positions, but invariably the entire society-facing side of huge companies is a wall of women with useless soft college degrees and massive ideological chips on their collective shoulders.

As long as Facebook and Twitter are the largest social platforms ("public squares" if you need an appropriate real-world analogy) on the planet and are loaded up with unsavory obnoxious feminist assholes crybullying their ideology directly into how those platforms are policed and who gets kicked off, freedom of speech will always be an underdog in the culture war since they have the high ground.

Don't waste your time going down the "you have no right to a platform" and "free speech only matters when the government is the censor" paths with this, either. Those tired old memes have been beaten to death and we all know that you really mean "I only like the concept of freedom of speech when it applies to me and those who agree with me."

There... fixed that for ya.

[denzacar]

"'Verified' Is Now a Derogatory Term on Twitter... for rightards."

You know... Like liberal, feminist, socialist, immigrant, Muslim, Jew, black, literate, educated... and all other dog whistling insults that rightard cowards are using cause they don't have the balls to say what they really mean.
Sad.

In 1981, former Republican Party strategist Lee Atwater, when giving an anonymous interview discussing the GOP's Southern Strategy (see also Lee Atwater on the Southern Strategy), said:[19][20]

        You start out in 1954 by saying, "Ni99er, ni99er, ni99er."
By 1968, you can't say "ni99er" - that hurts you. Backfires. So you say stuff like forced busing, states' rights and all that stuff.
You're getting so abstract now [that] you're talking about cutting taxes, and all these things you're talking about are totally economic things and a byproduct of them is [that] blacks get hurt worse than whites. And subconsciously maybe that is part of it. I'm not saying that.
But I'm saying that if it is getting that abstract, and that coded, that we are doing away with the racial problem one way or the other.
You follow me - because obviously sitting around saying, "We want to cut this," is much more abstract than even the busing thing, and a hell of a lot more abstract than "Ni99er, ni99er."
        -âLee Atwater, Republican Party strategist in an anonymous interview in 1981