Libertarians come up with a new way to bypass consent for sex.

Tinder Now Letting Rizzless Sad Sacks Pay $500/Month to Message People Without Even Matching (Futurism, yesterday)

I guarantee that someone paying $500 a month to bypass your consent on a dating app is definitely the person you want to date.

This is on top of the stupid application fee they’re charging to join now.

There isn’t a business which libertarians can’t kill.

If you get a message from someone you never matched with on Tinder, it’s not a glitch — it’s part of the app’s expensive new subscription plan that it teased earlier this year, which allows “power users” to send unsolicited messages to non-matches for the small fee of $499 per month.

As Bloomberg reports, the new VIP subscription tier, the highest of the company’s new “Tinder Select” service, does come with an important caveat: it will only be offered to fewer than one percent of the app’s user base, and even they’ll have to apply in addition to paying the enormous subscription cost.

“We know that there is a subset of highly engaged and active users who prioritize more effective and efficient ways to find connections,” Tinder’s chief product officer, Mark Van Ryswyk, told Bloomberg. “And so we engaged in extensive tests and feedback with this audience over the past several months to develop a completely new offering.”

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