Elon Musk Plans to Remove Option to Block People on Twitter

[iStorm]

Sure am glad I have never got involved with any of these parasite web groups. They all have as their first demand access to my contacts. A huge NO.

The unfortunate thing is that while you may have been smart to not give them access to your contacts; your friends/family/clients who have you as a contact may not have been. So these groups likely already know who you are and your circle of friends anyway.

Experienced this myself when I had to sign up for Venmo a few years ago. I denied access to my contacts during the sign-up process, but they still presented a bunch of suggestions to add as friends. These were all people I know, and some were old acquaintances I haven't talked to for 10+ years. I was confused how they knew this since I didn't give them access to my contacts, but it finally dawned on me that all those people probably gave Venmo access to their contacts instead...and Venmo matched them up to me because of my phone number I had to use to "verify" my account.

 

[surfzen21]

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.

I've drafted these for clients and know how they are interpreted by courts if litigated.

I stand by my comment.

 

[6787872]

another day, more nonsense from elon the fool

 

[seek3r]

X*

*"the product formerly known as Twitter" (though, let's be honest, Musk *wishes* he were even a fraction as cool as Prince was)

 

[ttyRazor]

No. The whole sentence reads “apps with … social networking services must include the ability to block abusive users from the service.”

As much as I love a good gotcha, “from the service” implies blocking them entirely from a platform, not users blocking other users.

 

[ryanarrr]

So quite possible Twitter can remove blocking as long as it has a way to remove bad actors.

doesn't seem like they can fire the guy that owns the company

 

[TheYayAreaLiving 🎗️]

The only person who should be blocked from Twitter from everyone should be Elon Musk.

 

[dcp10]

He just says dumb **** to get attention, and it works.

 

[fatTribble]

So he wants to grow the business by eliminating features? 🤔

 

[clcnyc]

He doesn’t want anyone else blocking the hateful bigots. Let it go down in flames.

 

[Analog Kid]

Not sure if this is sarcastic or serious 🧐

Isn't it amazing that we can't be sure any more?

 

[VulchR]

Seriously thinking about ditching X and requiring them to delete my data.

 

[cocky jeremy]

He's going out of his way to tank that ****. Hahah. Wow. I'm just enjoying the show. I deleted my account as soon as the moron killed off Tweetbot.

 

[BuffaloTF]

I think mute might fulfill these requirements? You can block (mute) people you dont want to see.

He certainly replied to someone asking what the difference between them is with this asinine change… but the difference is quite tangible. It’s the difference between preventing someone from stalking you, and merely plugging your ears so you don’t hear their footsteps.

 

[Corefile]

Musk is a psychopath.

 

[turbineseaplane]

This guy is a galaxy brain genius I tell you!

 

[ht5pilot]

I’m glad I deactivated my account last month. This platform is going down faster than the Titanic. I’m sure people will migrate to Threads or Mastodon and not look back.

 

[5580463]

He's going out of his way to tank that ****. Hahah. Wow. I'm just enjoying the show. I deleted my account as soon as the moron killed off Tweetbot.

Seriously considering doing this as well. I tried twitter blue for about a week before I asked for a refund, see how much better of an experience it is. I was literary seeing one ad per three posts. Though ads is not the main problem of the platform right now.

Anyway, he is not going to go through with this, imo. He'll just say "power to the people, your voice is heard" etc etc and leave it as is.

 

[ersan191]

Everyone is losing their minds over the wording lol.

Blocking does seem pretty pointless, the blocked user could just logout completely or login to a different account to see your tweets. Mute is what you would traditionally consider as "blocking" someone, which isn't going away.

 

[Lioness~]

So I had to log into my X only to block Musk, hope he gets statistics of blocks.

 

[TheKDub]

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?

I think even if you mute someone, it's not just that they can still see what you tweet (potential stalker implications, etc.), but I think the article says that they can still reply to your tweets, etc. If that's the case, this might make things worse since they could potentially be bad-mouthing, slander, etc. and you wouldn't even know it and could leave you defenseless since you wouldn't even know to respond and others could take that silence as admission of defeat.

Obviously there's a ton of nuances to take into account here - but this move makes a managing messy territory even messier imo.

 

[BaldiMac]

Everyone is losing their minds over the wording lol.

Blocking does seem pretty pointless, the blocked user could just logout completely or login to a different account to see your tweets. Mute is what you would traditionally consider as "blocking" someone, which isn't going away.

Pointless? Seems pretty reasonable to want to be able to block someone that is abusing you from using your posts and followers to promote themselves to your friends and followers.

 

[macguru212]

Seriously considering doing this as well. I tried twitter blue for about a week before I asked for a refund, see how much better of an experience it is. I was literary seeing one ad per three posts. Though ads is not the main problem of the platform right now.

Anyway, he is not going to go through with this, imo. He'll just say "power to the people, your voice is heard" etc etc and leave it as is.

interesting about the ads, I naively thought paying for this service would eliminate the ads. As you said, every 3rd post they appear. I'm growing tired of Elon, he should stick to cars and rockets.

 

[erikkfi]

As much as I love a good gotcha, “from the service” implies blocking them entirely from a platform, not users blocking other users.

🤷‍♂️ I guess we'll both find out for sure when Apple gives the company another exception to its rules.

 

[macintologist]

Just go to threads