I can imagine the conversation.
Elon: “I own this website, and you’re telling me that I’m not allowed to see this person’s profile or activity because they blocked me?”
Good luck getting a massive narcissist like him to understand why every user should have that right.
He’s acting exactly like your typical shitty narcissistic parasite of a parent who finds out they don’t control EVERY one of your social media accounts, whether you live with them or not lol. Or when they blocked someone “on your behalf” and you didn’t know about it and tried to search for them to no avail.
“Why is the engagement on my posts so low?”
“Well your Excellency, the great and powerful Musk, the users have blocked you.”
“They can’t do that. How else will they bask in my magnificence?”
“We tried ignoring the block and showing your posts anyway, but we had to reverse that decision unfortunately.”
“I have it! Remove blocking completely for everyone!”
“You are most wise. It shall be done, your Excellency.”
Fuck that twat.
This is not in any way a “threat to public safety” but it’s still a cringe decision.
The inability to block users actually makes moderation even more necessary and makes it harder to allow “free speech.”
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Im all for it, if it means that government 3 letter organizations cant demand block of users either…
just in case this wasn’t sarcastic… it obviously doesn’t.
This sentence is barely literate
Has the DOE often demanded one Twitter user block another?
They clearly mean the Department Of Transportation.
Its all part of the plan. EM does one outrageous thing each day to constantly stay in the news cycle. The ego must be fed.
Oscar Wilde described this mentality in The Picture of Dorian Gray
“There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.”
Yeah, who is this guy again? And why does he always look like he’s about to sneeze?
“That’s his eager face.”
EM does one outrageous thing each day to constantly stay in the news cycle. The ego must be fed.
Maybe he’s competing against MAGA Mango Mussolini.
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Is it the ego feeding or keeping Twitter (“X”) front of mind? Kind of like 2010 lady gaga constantly one upping herself to stay in the news (meat dress anyone?)
Is it the ego feeding or keeping Twitter (“X”) front of mind?
They’re the same picture.
Bro is completely unhinged
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Threat to Public Safety
Dude, you forgot which of two worlds is the real one. Hint: it’s not the Internet.
I like this since it forces people who do not like having their world view shaken up to have their world view shaken up. This will either limit echo chambers on the platform or cause people to leave Twitter. Most likely cause people to leave Twitter which I am all for since it is a big tech spyware platform filled with toxic people.
Nostr is were it is at! Not mastodon.
BTW I do not have a Twitter account nor do I use Twitter.
no.
You obviously don’t use Twitter if you think well-argued/constructive challenges to worldviews are the sorts of things people need the blocking feature for.
For some twitter users use the blocking feature to live in a echo chamber. For some it is to block spam. For some it is to block rude people.
The con of no blocking feature is not able to block spam.
People don’t just block others for “shaking up their world view”, lots of blocks happen because of harassment, rude behavior, etc. Taking away one of the few tools to stop harassment is insane.
I agree with the sentiment, but it doesn’t hold up in reality.
Having any sort of engagement with rightoids results in your feed getting filled with Nazi shit.
Truly a mystery why he would do this… /s
Just a wee selection of my block list: bots, thirst traps, bitcoin bro, invest bros, marketing bros, dating stuff and far too much gambling.
I mean twitter must be down on ad revenue by the amount of gambling sites I block alone. Surely I was just about to sign up and gamble on the big South match between the irresistible Portsmouth v the unmovable object that is Southhampton.
Is there a shared list for blocking? I wouldn’t mind importing that.
No idea if I can share it, it’s just what I’ve manually blocked over the years.
He’ll probably invest his remaining billions in developing a way to thwart adblockers next. It will be as successful as everything else he has done in relation to twitter.
Just get off it people. Easy to solve.
It seems to me that no one really gives a shit except the people cranking out articles about it.
Watch Quo Vardis (1951) the other day. Elon is in it. Played by Peter Ustinov.
What’s the over under on how many days until he backtracks this wonderful idea? I’ll put it at 5. I choose over but only because I think that’s how long the coke and benzo binge will take to wear off.
Before someone says “but you can mute those toxic asshole”. Muting them means they will continue to see your posts and will still berate you, other people will reply quoting you and you will not only continue to see the toxic content, but you will become a target to more and more assholes with nothing better to do in life
