The founder of ElizaOS accused X of extortion by asking him to pay a high license fee to unblock his account, and said he was considering whether to take legal action.

Odaily Planet Daily News ElizaOS founder Shaw wrote in Farcaster: "X (Twitter) contacted me and claimed that we violated certain terms of service, including selling data and selling certain content by bypassing API keys. We have never done this, not in the past, and never in the future. They directly cited my open source code as the reason for the ban-but it was not even mainly the code I wrote, but just something pieced together from other open source projects. They said that if we pay $50,000 a month for an enterprise license, they will stop making things difficult. Currently we pay $1,000 a month for the "yellow label" certification and $200 for the developer license. Why can switching to an enterprise account change my right to publish open source code? This is naked extortion and should not be legal at all. I don't want to be part of this system. It's completely against my principles. I'm considering whether to resort to legal means."