Ahh. So, we shouldn't inconvenience the stalker, just the person being stalked? Seems like a pretty ridiculous reason to remove the block function.
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Elon Musk Plans to Remove Option to Block People on Twitter
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Might be more interested in "Twitter" news if they updated the MacOS app.
Twitter or "X" owner Elon Musk today said that the option to block people on Twitter is going to be "deleted as a feature" in the future, as it "makes no sense."
Musk made the comment in response to a tweet asking whether there was a reason to block someone instead of muting someone on the social network. Mute and block are two fundamentally different features on Twitter. Mute prevents you from seeing content from Twitter users, while block prevents other people from seeing your content, following you, and interacting with you.
According to Musk, muting will be the sole way to filter content on Twitter in the future, though there will still be a blocking feature for direct messages. Removing block will allow spam accounts and harassers to interact with people that would have otherwise blocked them as muting is far less restrictive.
If you mute an account, for example, that account can still follow you, see your content, reply to it, and favorite, retweet, and quote your tweets. Their replies to tweets won't be visible to you, but they'll still be able to reply. You won't get notifications for their replies unless you follow them, but if someone replies to the reply from the muted person, you will see that notification and be alerted to the conversation. For many users, the loss of the block function would be detrimental.
It is not clear if Musk will follow through on plans to remove the blocking feature, especially with the backlash that Musk's announcement has created. As with many of Musk's announcements, there is no word on when blocking might be removed.
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the block lists that get rid of white supremacists, terfs, the army of reactionary weirdos, and people who pay for blue checks is the only thing that makes that app tolerable. people have been a little too quick to say twitter is going to disappear, it’s well established into a lot of people’s lives even with this doofus making it worse, but i do think a big enough change could push it to the point where people just don’t want to engage anymore. at least for me, this would do it.
Mute someone - you can’t see them.
Block them - they can’t see you.
Trust me, from a safety and privacy angle, there’s a BIG difference.
I did. Did you?
"According to Musk, muting will be the sole way to filter content on Twitter in the future,"
And I agree. Mute. Very simple.
You do know that most people have multiple accounts where they can switch and see your content after being blocked, right?
I mean it's clear you're not understanding the first highlighted sentence. If you drafted that exact sentence, any lawyer would be able to argue "the statement clearly is speaking to the platform about being able to block that user from the service, not a user blocking other users".
And I stand by comment.
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It's like Musk wants to destroy his own play thing. How many users will this lose? I couldn't even tolerate these forums without the block feature!! 😂
Then they will complain and use it as proof we need side loading and alternate stores.https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/guidelines/#safetyAlso removing the block feature is against both Apple and Google's TOS for their respective app stores
https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/guidelines/#safety
https://support.google.com/googleplay/android-developer/answer/9876937
Galaxy Brain Elon: Cant lose any advertising revenue when my app cant reach anyone to begin with!
I did so the day he bought it. I need to block it in my email to stop it from sending me daily updates.
truly. imagine being a teacher’s pet for a pervert billionaire who thinks normie memes from 2012 is the height of comedy
Translation: "I'm not going to allow you to block accounts that pay me to advertise."
Make sure you turn off all notifications because it will keep emailing you updates.
As if anyone needed another reason not to be on the wretched hive of scum and villany that is Twitt...er.. I mean "X".
What a really stupid decision, so if someone is harassing you in some way you can't block them!. I swear he's trying to kill this company on purpose as fast as possible.
You don’t see them but they can still jump on you post and trash and harass or insult you on your tweets?
But if you mute them they can still send you harassment dms and see your content.
Nothing says "public social platform" like instructions to not post there...
I would expect that this violates a no-multiple-account rule and can get the violator banned, I mean if rules meant anything anymore. I suspect this isn't something that's enforced regularly but, if anyone else was in charge, I'd imagine "they stalked me, I blocked them, they created another account and continued stalking me" would be strong evidence to have someone removed.
Then maybe block is the one to keep and mute is redundant?