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Elon Musk Says Twitter Is Going To Get Rid Of The Block Feature, Enabling Greater Harassment (www.techdirt.com)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Anyone still on Twitter (who doesn’t absolutely need to be on Twitter for their job) must either enjoy harassing others or somehow enjoy being harassed?

I have no clue why anyone who isn’t a right-wing dingbat would use Twitter for fun or whatever. It’s so not fun to be on a platform run by a little manbaby, for a little manbaby.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago

Bro it's like he WANTS us to only see t shirt ads

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

One step away from A Clockwork Orange where users' eyes will be held open so they are forced to see fashy-curious content

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

Is this meant to be the final response to #BlocktheBlue

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago (4 children)

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?

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Elons probably tired of everyone blocking him. If everyone blocks him, then no one can with this new “feature” lol

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago (2 children)

@dirtmayor Now that's just stupid. And I generally like the guy.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

he's pissed because people started installing browser extensions like Block The Blue

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

So how will they comply with court orders requiring that function? /smh

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

@elonmusk and u/Spez walk into a bar...

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

LOL that is probably because I've been blocking Elon's profile for a while now. I'm pretty sure this has to do with his profile being blocked by more and more people.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (5 children)

3rd-party Twitter clients are going to have quite a spike in popularity then, just need to implement clientside blocking.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I'd wager this is in response to the campaign going around to block every blue checkmark. Elon can't let his crowd of sycophants feel like they're being ignored.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Correction: Twitter is removing the block feature so that tweets can reach the full audience...

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

how is this a good idea? Even lemmy has a "block" feature on like day 1

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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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