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This is of course illegal since it's claiming dead people are paying for a product in order to advertise it. I filed an FTC complaint just cause it was easy.

nb the old Blue was useful and I did pay for it, the new one is basically features for scammers and people who want to get into fights.

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How do you know this is done with intent to promote or advertise for 'it'?

Could be an agent or loved one took the time to preserve the memory or are we just claiming there is some type of ill play here.

It's a bit weird that all these people signed up on the same Saturday night.

Activition and subscription are two different tasks though. There may have been some delay in decision making making whether or not to allow dead people to be verified and also the payment method.

Their agents like Rhianna Pratchett said they didn't do it. And of course there's living people getting it who don't want it.

We have hundreds of thousands of people, including many dead people (or their supposed teams) suddenly deciding, within hours of each other, to sign up. We have had enough people explicitly say they'll never sign up ahead of time, and after their check showed up, they said they didn't sign up. And we had Elon Musk himself admit he's "subscribing" people objecting to the program.

I mean... how much more evidence do you want?

It's mass, MASS false endorsement. And that's highly ILLEGAL.

It’s consistent with Elon’s behavior to date.

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