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Friday Fun Thread for December 16, 2022

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Had to look those up so it’s been trialed.

I’m curious if there’s real money in this. Like ban Trump at $1-5 million a day price. (30-50 a day the 2 weeks before an election).

And then it becomes a normal election expense where you buy out your opponents twitter account at key times. Americans like spending a lot of money on politics now.

I think the problem with this is that the person being suspended could move to another platform and they'd have no reason to stick around if they could get randomly suspended on a platform with this feature.

It would only work on a site with a de facto monopoly from network effects. Twitter is as close to this as any site for the kind of content it serves but a disproportionate amount of its appeal is access to celebrities and big names, who are precisely the people who'd be the biggest targets of crowdsourced suspension.

It might be an interesting market if you shared some of the revenue with the banned user.