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dirtmayor@beehaw.org to Technology@beehaw.orgEnglish · 2 years ago

Elon Musk Says Twitter Is Going To Get Rid Of The Block Feature, Enabling Greater Harassment

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Elon Musk Says Twitter Is Going To Get Rid Of The Block Feature, Enabling Greater Harassment

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One of the most important tools for trust and safety efforts is the “block” feature, allowing a user to entirely block someone else from following them. Yes, on Twitter you can get around this by g…
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    So what you’re saying is, if I have a Twitter account and I start blocking many MANY people it costs Elon money? Interesting.

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      Alternatively, Elon just found out how many people are blocking him.

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        I think this is what really happened. Hurt his ego.

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      I’m extremely doubtful that there is any truth to that.

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        True, and even if there were it would be a massive pain and probably the best thing to do is not engage with twitter at all.

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