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Paying for blue checks is a GOOD thing

Name: Paying for blue checks is a GOOD thing
Uploaded: 2023-05-17T14:00:21+00:00
Duration: 52 s
Channel: Peter Vander Wall
Description: A short YouTube monologue arguing that paid verification (paid blue checks) is a positive development. The speaker contends that people have long…

17 May 2023 · 1 min

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A short YouTube monologue arguing that paid verification (paid blue checks) is a positive development. The speaker contends that people have long obtained verification through black-market means, that charging $15/month democratizes verification, helps combat increasingly sophisticated AI bots, removes verification as a status symbol, and forces audiences to judge content by its intrinsic value.

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What do you think about paying for verification? Alright, let's be real. People have been paying for verification for years, just in a more black market kind of way. There's people out there who paid 10, 20, even 50 grand for a fake Forbes article and some insider at Instagram to give them that blue check. So why are people so mad that it costs $15 a month now? In fact, I would go as far as to say paid verification is necessary. To be honest, it's probably not the best solution we'll come up with, but it's the only one we've got right now to combat these AI bots that are getting more complex every single day. And not to mention it really level the playing field for us regular people. Paid verification means the blue check is no longer a status symbol. It's proof that you're a real person. Theoretically, a celebrity now carries no more weight than you or I. And so now the way that we have to filter information online isn't by a blue check mark next to it, it's by the actual value of the content. And that is the best thing that's happened to the Internet in years.