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 News ElizaOS founder Shaw posted on 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 before, never have, and never will in the future.
They directly cited my open source code as the reason for the ban - but it wasn't even primarily code I wrote, it was just something cobbled together from other open source projects.
They said they would stop making things difficult for us if we paid $50,000 a month for an enterprise license.
We currently pay $1000 per month for the Yellow Label certification and $200 per month for the developer license.
Why does switching to a business account change my rights to publish open source code?
This is blatant extortion and should not be legal.
I don't want to be part of this system, it goes against my principles completely.
We are considering whether to take legal action.”