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Elon Musk Says Twitter Is Going To Get Rid Of The Block Feature, Enabling Greater Harassment
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this post was submitted on 11 Jun 2023
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Wouldn't this open Twitter up to harassment charges? I mean, it's Musk so it is obviously an ego thing and not a well thought out idea, but couldn't someone sue because they can no longer block someone tweeting hateful things to them?
Probably not. If you mute someone then you can't see what they wrote, and if you don't see something then it's not harassment. It's equivalent to someone constantly telling other people bad things about you behind your back, which isn't harassment either. Might be defamation, though.