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Elon Musk Plans to Remove Option to Block People on Twitter
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Then post "I want absolutely nothing to do with you" then mute. Let them waste their seconds of life on earth trying to get under your skin and you won't waste anymore time with that person.
And this will all be because people have been blocking him. I blocked him months ago as soon as his tweets started appearing in my feed, even though I didn’t follow him.
Each day I edge closer to just deleting my entire account. Total 💩 show.
Each day I edge closer to just deleting my entire account. Total 💩 show.
Let me spell this out for you:
The person against whom I have that restraining order blackmailed me. He is currently sitting in prison on an 11-year sentence for what he did to me and others. It is in my own best interest to block any accounts of his that I become aware of basically for the rest of my life. That’s because blocking makes it more difficult — not impossible, but more difficult — for him to find me and people I know (because that specifically was a component of the blackmail).
If I only mute him, there’s absolutely nothing stopping him from hopping into my replies and carrying out exactly what he wanted to carry out against me years ago. Yes, there’d eventually be consequences for his violating the restraining order if he at any point contacted me directly — which he wouldn’t necessarily have to do — but that doesn’t mean immense damage can’t be done in the meantime.
I hope you never have to know what it feels like to need to block someone like I do.
There's nothing stopping him from creating another account. And another. And another.
Mute him and stop thinking about it.
No?
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Same. His tweets and replies to them were like being forced to read 4chan drivel.
Stalking? Uh, it's not difficult to create an alt locked account and follow you
Harassing? Trolls have hundreds of twitter accounts. Block one, another comes out and says "oh you thought you could block me? LOL"
Mute and stop thinking about that person. They won't know you muted. Let that person waste precious seconds/minutes/hours on earth typing out things you'll never see.
There probably is, actually — social networks are known to flag rapid account creation (or any rapid action, really) from identical/similar IP/email addresses for possible abuse. Either way, blocking any future accounts I come across inhibits his access to me and — again, this is an important component in context — to people I know. Muting would allow him to reply to me, and people I know, fully unchecked. Blocking is an important tool because it inhibits harassment and defamation. Nothing’s perfect, and nothing needs to be, but providing users with the tools they need to feel safe online is generally viewed as important, last I checked.
Again, I hope you never know what this feels like because you clearly haven’t the slightest clue despite what I’ve shared here. Even after therapy you can’t just “stop thinking about it.” Trust me, I’ve had that idea and even tried it. It doesn’t work.
There’s a reason why basically every social media platform offers the ability to block users. No, it’s not because Apple and Google force them to (as has been discussed at length here, maybe they do, maybe they don’t). It’s an important safety and privacy feature that in 2023 is considered baseline functionality for any public communication app.
And hey, you know that you can also just admit that you, due to maybe having a more comfortable life experience than somebody else, simply didn’t anticipate a possible consequence of some action, right? It happens sometimes, and that’s okay!
Yes, even the Human God-King and Knower of All Things Elon Musk can be wrong sometimes, too, as hard of a concept as that is for some to grasp.
This is comical. Certainly not common; most will only go through the trouble of creating several before either getting tired of it or flagged for abuse by whatever platform they’re creating these accounts on.
I counted, have 38 different Twitter accounts saved in my 1Password. Plenty of shady sites also sell Twitter accounts by the hundreds.
I've had a crazy ex-gf actually. I'm not going into detail on what happen incase she reads these forums. But it's way worse than your blackmail, by a mile.
I know Macrumors isn't a platform but there's no blocking on here. Only ignore. Same thing.
Nope. Apple does not require a block. Only Twitter to have control in banning people "from the service".
You have no idea what I'm going through. Not a *single* remote clue actually.
Not my view of Elon but you do you.
As impossible as it may seem, I can bash Elon while agreeing with his actions.
Ex: Have you seen the absolute total stupid the thing he did in Tokyo today? Who thought it would be a good idea to block the DJ in view so you can live stream the crowd where nobody actually gives a flying f of watching? It's clear to me is completely incapable of quite literally reading the room:
It's ridiculous to immediately label someone for agreeing on something you don't like. Don't do that next time.
Not going to post the link here, but there are plenty of *Certaincoloredhat* websites to buy thousands of Twitter/X accounts for cheap via BTC. Especially old Twitter accounts that were created over 5 years ago.
I've bought a few and they worked fine (for API because you only had one shot for application to get access in the old days).
A privileged CEO living in his wealthy bubble doesn’t think or care about that. Claiming there’s no need for content moderation on his platform because of his usual rhetoric that his views and those of conservatives are being repressed. It’s really sad.
Elon's just upset that the ones who haven't blocked him are just bot accounts.
Hee hee. Incredible. It’s almost like he’s spent the last few weeks trying to figure out the next worst thing he can do to upset his customers. Bye bye X. You won’t be missed, by me at least.
It's a bit more complicated than that.
Mute is the equivalent of pretending not to notice when a loan shark comes to your house and sprays threatening message on your front wall. Just because you choose not to see it doesn't mean the hurtful messages aren't there, or that they don't do any harm.
For example, a muted account can still dox me by say, giving out my home address to other haters in your replies who have expressed an interest in murdering me and my family. They can still see what I post, and respond accordingly.
It's not so simple as "out of sight, out of mind".
It's a rouse. Musk wants to play victim and scream 'FREEDOM' when or if the former twitter app gets banned from the google/apple stores.
Then he will argue for side loading.
Then all the law makers who were trying to force side loading will have second thoughts about the bribes they received.
All of this is happening to infiltrate your devices and make your lives less secure.
It's billionaires and eastern powers playing mind games so they can create chaos in the west.
Then he will argue for side loading.
Then all the law makers who were trying to force side loading will have second thoughts about the bribes they received.
All of this is happening to infiltrate your devices and make your lives less secure.
It's billionaires and eastern powers playing mind games so they can create chaos in the west.
Seems to me this is handing some power back to spam and troll accounts.
Unsure what the thought process is other than intentionally making it worse to make way for a new app or for some other undeclared purpose but for me there simply has to be a bigger picture at play here 🤷♂️
Unsure what the thought process is other than intentionally making it worse to make way for a new app or for some other undeclared purpose but for me there simply has to be a bigger picture at play here 🤷♂️
Did it with Facebook a couple years ago and couldn't be happier. Also did it with twitter in 2012, but that was just a parody account of the Romney/Ryan 2012 campaign. My life is richer without those parasites.
How would that work? The app would have the power to block someone from the service entirely? What's the point of that? Would it have the power to block the user who downloaded it, or would the user be able to block some other user from the service entirely? The former sounds like a useless app, and the latter more like an admin app. Neither scenario is how any of these apps have worked in the past so I'm pretty sure the app is supposed to allow the user to block other users from accessing their account, like most people here are interpreting it.
