The social media platform's ‘block’ feature is to be deleted, much to the chagrin of just about everyone.
," the block function is intended to “control how you interact with other accounts on Twitter” and “helps people in restricting specific accounts from contacting them, seeing their Tweets, and following them.” As Kotaku reporter, the platform's “safety measures are notoriously lackluster” so blocking other users is often the only way to avoid targeted harassment from specific people.
It's also a good way to stop those harassers in their tracks, Jackson notes. “Even some of the more persistent angry people who show up in my mentions, the kind who take a screenshot of the block they’ve received to tweet something like ‘I guess I touched a nerve,’ lose interest once there’s a stumbling block for further engaging with me,” they write.
But according to Musk, his company will soon remove that stumbling block. Instead, he seemingly says, users, a function that means a user can essentially remove another user's remarks from view, but does not prevent another user from seeing their activity on X. In essence, it's like covering your eyes and ears when someone is yelling awful things at you: they can keep on yelling in your face, you just don't know they're doing it. But if Musk moves forward with this plan (anyone's guess, given the number of
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