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Elon Musk Plans to Remove Option to Block People on Twitter
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So your theory is that Musk likes blocking people and therefore will REMOVE blocking from Twitter?
I mean, seriously, WTF?
There are people every bit as insane on the left side of the fence as on the right side; they just suffer from Musk Derangement Syndrome rather than from subscribing to QAnon. But the incoherence, the lack of rationality, the conspiracy theories - zero difference between the two.
No. The whole sentence reads “apps with … social networking services must include the ability to block abusive users from the service.”
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i used Twitter mostly on my laptop, on Safari
in that context, it was possible to roll over a given user's name and see a popup of their bio.
that feature has been killed without a requiem
i'd miss it tremendously if i continued to frequent the site
I see a lot of rage but I don’t understand the issue.
Once you mute someone they are gone from your Twitter. They don’t exist to you. So if someone is annoying you or harassing you - mute and they disappear. Boom. Done.
Why is it important to have block which just stops someone from seeing your tweets. The important thing is that people don’t get harassed, right?
Once you mute someone they are gone from your Twitter. They don’t exist to you. So if someone is annoying you or harassing you - mute and they disappear. Boom. Done.
Why is it important to have block which just stops someone from seeing your tweets. The important thing is that people don’t get harassed, right?
Can I get in on this? I want to waste my day arguing about the relative merits of some billionaire instead of using my day for anything productive or useful too.
Know what really makes no sense? Elon.
I found myself blocking all the advertisers on my feed, so it wouldn't surprise me if this is another way of making sure ad revenue can be sold as no one will be able to block adverts anymore. If that is the case, I wonder how many other people have been blocking adverts en mass for this to happen...
Nothing to suggest that he would remove it since that would be the only way to control what you see from trolls.
sure it is. i don't see the troll's contents i'm muting in my notifications. quite literally remotely close.
The free speech absolutist has no problem with dead naming, so let’s keep doing it to his business.
The first highlighted text is quite literally what he means. "Blocking abusive users from the service" is speaking to X corp, not X users. Users have no control of who is allowed on "the service".
And no, a 100% decentralized, peer to peer social network would have zero control on who is allowed to connect to other users. Now I'm not sure how other decentralized apps are allowed on iOS like Damus but that would be seemingly in violation unless it's not 100% decentralized.
However second highlighted text could absolutely mean user blocking content but mute achieves the same purpose of not seeing unwanted content.
Have you considered that harassment can extend beyond the platform and information from your account can be used maliciously outside of twitter? It's not just about them disappearing to YOU. Sometimes, for your own safety, you need to disappear from THEM.
Musk is drunk on power. He exercises it willy-nilly, ‘because-he-can.’Block will be reintroduced as a paid feature
I bet his friends and accolades will always have the block feature.
the other organizing principle of Musk's stewardship of Twitter is to make it difficult for mainstream, righteous Americans to congregate on the site / app. every decision appears to be pro-trolls and anti-citizen
i thank Heaven Elon is an absolutist when it comes to free speech.
i shudder to think what he'd have done if he were a fascist
It’s funny isn’t it. Journalists are like crack addicts for this thing. Some have staked their whole careers on it. I didn’t realise this until recently.
And the incredible thing is twitter only has about 250m users. Compared to other networks its reach is nothing. But because the media use it almost exclusively they amplify its importance to the wider world.
I’ve started to see why it’s a bit of an uphill struggle for even Threads to compete with it. Simply because the media create what’s “relevant” even if it isn’t even true.
X is still better than Threads. Keep it going, Elon!
Don't see the problem. If you mute people you can't interact with them.
Tired of participating in Musk’s personal playground. Stay in your lane Musk. Sadly, I’m not a fan of that punk Zuckerberg either. Social media is such a double-edged sword.
Not sure if this is sarcastic or serious 🧐
Did you read the article?