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Elon Musk Says Twitter Is Going To Get Rid Of The Block Feature, Enabling Greater Harassment
(www.techdirt.com)
Time to promote the hell out of Mastodon
this post was submitted on 11 Jun 2023
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That sounds like the most stupid shit ever. I'm usually not the person that blocks a lot. I believe in 5 years of twitter i maybe blocked 3 accounts plus a couple of spam bots. But still...like...why would you think that this is a good idea?
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This can't be serious...
Is this meant to be the final response to #BlocktheBlue
One step away from A Clockwork Orange where users' eyes will be held open so they are forced to see fashy-curious content
Bro it's like he WANTS us to only see t shirt ads
I wonder where the fandoms and the artist communities are going to go now that they just opened the floodgates for the massive amount of harassment those communities tend to deal with.
I presume some are going to return to Tumblr, but hopefully they make the switch to Mastodon.
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So how will they comply with court orders requiring that function? /smh
Doesn't he himself use this feature a ton? 😂
I’m gonna take a wild guess and say it won’t apply to him.
Or if it does then he’ll just delete accounts he wants to block.
Serious question: is musk actively trying to run twitter into the ground for some kind of financial benefit, or is he just an arrogant asinine asshole who has no idea what he's doing?
My tinfoil hat theory is this: Musk has ties with dictators who would really, really like to see Twitter die as it’s been used in the past to organize resistance and broadcast embarrassing information. Musk is used to do the dirty job of running it into the ground. He may or he may not be actually aware of this, as your characterization of Musk is on point. Just speculation of course.
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I just don't understand some of these decisions...
I only see this as going well for him/Twitter.
Not really, it’s definitely going to be interesting to watch it go up in flames 🍿
Up next, everyone who joins Twitter gets a free king Cobra delivered to them at a random point in the future.
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Are you kidding? Being able to block people who are harraing you is the ONLY thing that keeps social media civil. What the actual fuck.
Well damn, the only way I use twitter is by liberally blocking everything and just getting news from stuff I care about, since there is no other platform like it that everyone uses and updates regularly. They already started pushing stuff to my feed that I don't follow, now they are removing the ability to block and keep my feed clean too? They really are doing everything in their power to make me stop using it huh
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I reckon he's just really really fucking short-sited tbh. He seems to forget that there are people on twitter, or were tbh.
Makes me think he’s actively destroying it purposefully
You'd have a hard time convincing me he's not. Twitter was an absolutely fantastic way to organize politically. Imagine if you had enough money to casually drop out of your nation's treasury to end it and could squash a lot of political dissidents by doing so. I'm sure he's got a slush fund to end it from some not so great despots.
How in the world is that a good idea...