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Elon Musk Says Twitter Is Going To Get Rid Of The Block Feature, Enabling Greater Harassment
(www.techdirt.com)
Ol' Phoney Stark and his usual antics.
this post was submitted on 11 Jun 2023
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I hate Elon as much as the next guy but from reading the article he talks about stopping the blockage of public posts. Doesn't this make sense? You can just go into incognito mode and look at their account anyway. As far as I can tell, you still won't be able to interact with the user.
It's like when the whole Trump blocking people was being talked about as not allowing citizens to see public information that the president tweeted. I know that ordinary citizens is totally different, but again, if your account is public people that you block will find a way to look at your posts if they want to.
This doesn't make sense.
How is blocking different than a stronger form of mute? I don't know what he's talking about. I'm not sure he knows what he's talking about.
Wait. Is twitter still a thing? 😉
Lmao what a dumb idea
I assume he will still have the block button though.
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?
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Good. Nobody should be forced to kiss your ass cuz you're too much of a pussy to stand up for yourself.