Technology

Literally every single day we have idiots doing Musk's PR work for free.

Downvote Musk spam. The billionaire doesn't need your help making sure his businesses stay in the 24 hour news cycle.

What in the actual fuck does he think is going to happen

"it makes no sense" literally every social media site in existence has the block feature, and the reason is to help people prevent harassment. Elon is like a fucking toddler, it's obvious he just wants to get rid of blocking because he's pissy about being blocked by other people.

So... Wait.

This means someone can just @ someone else and destroy their feed with hate or dick pics or whatever?!

The block "feature" is a required tool for being listed on the Google and Apple stores, among others.

Removing it will get Twitter delisted from them as well.

This is incredibly consistent with the "free speech" crowd thinking free speech entitles you to an audience.

Just stop using Twitter. It's easy.

Unreal. It's not even incompetence, he really is just tanking the site on purpose.

The block feature is not there out of the goodness of their CEO's heart.

It is there to limit liability from harassment. After all, why police harassment laws at your expense. When you can get the end user to enforce it for you.

It's just Dumb evil.

This is so dumb, what is he thinking? What's the angle?

Dumbness aside, Twitter is only usable if you block all of the blue check spammers who add nothing to any discussion.

Maybe he's doing it so you can't block blue checks? But it still doesn't make a whole lot of sense.

Lmao this is going to be incredible to watch unfold. I am assuming Elon himself has blocked an absolute fuckton of accounts that are just out to troll him, so either he’s gonna (rightly) get absolutely inundated by trolls, or he’s gonna make the devs disable it for everyone except him and whoever else he wants to give that feature to.

Yup. X makes no sense. Please delete it.

I cant wait for Twitter/X to cease to exist.

“Mr. Billionaire Tech Company CEO, what was your detailed reasoning for the removal of a highly important feature that benefits way more users than the ones it harms?”

“It makes no sense”

Huh, I have never been a fan of blocking people, but this is a very dumb move, normal Twitter news of course.

Hasn't Elon blocked people before tho? And even been public when blocking some people?

He is actually, seriously saying "I don't get it, so it must be bad/unnecessary"

Is this man actually retarded or is he trolling us? Seems like he's intentionally shitting on Twitter

I recommend just blocking the entirely of Xwitter. Your life will be better off.

He'll make it a premium feature

He is really attempting to run it into the ground isn't he?

Such an incredibly stupid idea

He was probably the most blocked user on Twitter

You’re going to hear his dumb thoughts whether you want to or not.

I am so glad I ditched twitter when Musk took over. Blocking abusive people is a critical function on that cesspool of a social medium.

He's probably having a fit over everyone blocking him from their feeds

This is going to get buried, but I think it's important to note that block on twitter (unlike on most platforms) works both ways. You can still mute an account, and you won't see any of their content or mentions.

By removing block, it means you can no longer block a person from following you, but you can still prevent seeing their stuff. After all - all that person has to do see your public tweets is open an incognito browser window, and view your profile. If you have a private profile, none of this applies to begin with. So in that sense, I agree with Elon - block in its current form on twitter makes no sense.

Edit: Responding directly onto your posts - good point, I hadn't considered that. It's partially circumvented by changing the setting so can comment on your posts, but I agree that's more effort. For all the other things though - if you block someone now they can just take a screenshot of your tweet and comment on that.

Holy shit. The block feature was the only function that actually worked when dealing with trolls and assholes.

Remove that feature, and the remaining Queer and POC communities are going to be forced off the platform due to the abuse they will not be able to block.

I suspect this is mainly because people with the Blue checks keep crying about getting blocked.