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Elon Musk Says Twitter Is Going To Get Rid Of The Block Feature, Enabling Greater Harassment
(www.techdirt.com)
RIP Twitter
this post was submitted on 11 Jun 2023
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I've blocked every ad I've ever seen on the app. I haven't used it in a while and I doubt I'll ever go back now.
The only thing left that I use it for is getting alerts about live police chases so I can tune in. Ill leave that going until those people move to other platforms.
It's sad seeing Twitter take such a nose dive (more so then it already has). I met quite a fee friends on the platform and, despite it's many, many, MANY flaws, was still nice to be on when you interacted with friends. I hope my friends start using more decentralized social media soon with how much of a toxic environment Elon is trying to foster
Isn't this because he doesn't want to pay Google's bill that they already signed a deal with? I hope Twitter implodes and Elon loses millions
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Is advertising revenue so important to them they're willing to sacrifice literally everything else for it?
If it's not easy to use reddit, who will use reddit?
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So…. You just get hit with ad bots all day long?
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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Battle royale!
I assume he will still have the block button though.
The source showed the tweet as an image, so I went into the sewer waters from Fritter. And, yep, it's genuinely there.
It's not even that I believe him unable to have such bad takes: it's not the first time. I have just seen a few fake ones. But the fake ones aren't even needed!
But is this maybe because "blocking" is a feature that requires too much programming on twitter? I don't see the point in this.