https://variety.com/2023/digital/news/twitter-business-month...
and of course all this means is that the organizations most likely to be able to afford it won't have to
The smart move would be silent on the policy change, pay, and support rival platforms as they can. Instead they will eventually pay and look like they lost.
(Note that I use discriminate in the literal sense, as a simple statement of fact.)
But i agree it is a bad idea. The worst actors have money to buy the blue marks of an army of accounts.
This is basically making it easier for authoritarian governments to abuse it
