The difference of course being that what used to be a painstaking verification process is now bypassed by anyone with $8/mo to spare, if they choose to do so.
It is in fact not a non-story, since obviously this changes everything about how "verified" users should be considered in your feed (as nothing more than pay-to-play, where before there was at least a facade of curation).
Since you're disputing my comment and not the parent, I take it you agree that making people pay for verification is somehow "anti free speech", while promoting verified users when it was an opaque process was not? The comment I'm responding to is incoherent, in addition to being flamebait.
