{"id":1722182,"date":"2022-11-02T17:41:52","date_gmt":"2022-11-02T21:41:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1722182"},"modified":"2022-11-02T17:49:22","modified_gmt":"2022-11-02T21:49:22","slug":"your-feedback-is-appreciated-now-pay-8-elon-musk-mocks-aoc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/your-feedback-is-appreciated-now-pay-8-elon-musk-mocks-aoc\/","title":{"rendered":"Your Feedback Is Appreciated, Now Pay $8&#8243; &#8211; Elon Musk Mocks AOC"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fyour-feedback-is-appreciated-now-pay-8-elon-musk-mocks-aoc%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1722182&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/original_aoc_musk.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Following news that Elon Musk is planning to implement an $8 fee to maintain a user\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/thepostmillennial.com\/breaking-elon-musk-pitches-8-per-month-blue-checkmark-plan-for-twitter\">blue verification checkmark<\/a> on Twitter, the new owner of the social media platform blasted Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez over her complaints regarding the new plan.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Lmao at a billionaire earnestly trying to sell people on the idea that &#8216;free speech is actually a $8\/mo subscription plan,&#8221; AOC wrote on Twitter.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><\/blockquote>\n<p>In response, Musk wrote, &#8220;Your feedback is appreciated, now pay $8.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Notably, since 2014, members of the House receive a <a href=\"https:\/\/pressgallery.house.gov\/member-data\/salaries\">$174,000 yearly salary,<\/a> and AOC sells &#8220;tax the rich&#8221; merchandise through her online store, with sweatshirts running $60, and shirts running $27.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><\/blockquote>\n<p>Previously, Musk said the new verification system would cost\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/twitter-verified-status-pay-20-a-month-report-elon-musk\/\">$20 a month\u00a0<\/a>for users to receive a blue checkmark through Twitter Blue, which currently costs $5 monthly.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Twitter&#8217;s current lords &#038; peasants system for who has or doesn\u2019t have a blue checkmark is bullshit,&#8221; the Tesla CEO tweeted, noting that prices would be adjusted by country &#8220;proportionate to purchasing power parity.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In getting a Twitter Blue subscription, users also get &#8220;priority in replies, mentions and search, which is essential to defeat spam\/scam&#8221; as well as the ability to &#8220;post long video and audio&#8221; and to receive &#8220;half as many ads.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following news that Elon Musk is planning to implement an $8 fee to maintain a user\u2019s blue verification checkmark on Twitter, the new owner of the social media platform blasted<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1722185,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1722182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1722182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1722182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1722182\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1722185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1722182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1722182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1722182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}