Actually. getting people to pay $1 a year is genius because it is believed that those that use bots are undesirables and they use various means to stay anonymous to avoid detection. Getting users to pay $1 introduces money laws, regardless of the fact that only $1 is being charged. Those wanting to use bots will probably use stolen credit card details or obtain other stolen financial details from the dark web and as soon as they do money laws automatically kick in which means X can use go after people. VPN's would probably be the biggest target because if you look at VPN small print you will find that nearly all of them have a provision for not allowing illegal activity to take place on their servers but paying the $1 dollar from stolen financial data is illegal and X would now have the power to go after VPN's or at least pass on what info they have onto law authorities. No longer will those who want to stay anonymous and troll on X be allowed to do so because they would either have to use their own genuine financial account to pay the $1 or use stolen financial data and as soon as stolen financial data is identified to pay the $1, it means law enforcement will no have the authority to go after them. Yes it's is only a $1 but it opens up the floodgates on law enforcement around the world when that $1 is paid with by stolen financial data.
Look at it this way, if someone wants to troll on X, why on earth would they use their own financial details to pay for the $1, details that would be traceable to them. They wouldn't would they.
Take this scenario. A hacker wants to cause trouble on X so using a VPN to hide their true location, they created a fake account on X and start trolling. X now introduces $1 a year for users to be able to post. Not much law enforcement can do because it's just anonymous messages. The same hacker still not wanting to be identified cannot use their own financial data because it could be easily traced, so the hacker goes on the dark web and obtains stolen financial data and uses that to pay the $1. As soon as the hacker did that, how many international money laws has that hacker now broken? tons of them. That now gives law enforcement teeth to go after the hacker because that person has now broken international money laws. It would also expose the VPN to trouble because the VPN is being used to facilitate in the use of stolen financial details. Law enforcement could use the courts to go after VPN's to disclose the IP address of the hacker and all because of the introduction of $1.
Look at it this way, if someone wants to troll on X, why on earth would they use their own financial details to pay for the $1, details that would be traceable to them. They wouldn't would they.
Take this scenario. A hacker wants to cause trouble on X so using a VPN to hide their true location, they created a fake account on X and start trolling. X now introduces $1 a year for users to be able to post. Not much law enforcement can do because it's just anonymous messages. The same hacker still not wanting to be identified cannot use their own financial data because it could be easily traced, so the hacker goes on the dark web and obtains stolen financial data and uses that to pay the $1. As soon as the hacker did that, how many international money laws has that hacker now broken? tons of them. That now gives law enforcement teeth to go after the hacker because that person has now broken international money laws. It would also expose the VPN to trouble because the VPN is being used to facilitate in the use of stolen financial details. Law enforcement could use the courts to go after VPN's to disclose the IP address of the hacker and all because of the introduction of $1.
