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I think people sitting on a handle for 10-20 years without active use is annoying, so I'm fine with them taking them from dormant accounts. I think the selling is sketchy though.


It's less sketchy than third party underground sites, though, which is the alternative.


If OP had known his handle was going to be taken away, maybe he'd have tried selling it himself instead.


Came here to say this.


You’d probably feel differently if you paid $44 Billion for the platform

Can you even imagine?


Hey it's a revenue stream. I guess it's like selling domain names? Better than more ads maybe? Better than selling your data? Who are we kidding, they'll do all of the above.




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