Musk’s plan to axe X's block button is a real win for stalkers and abusers.

Pretty sure he’s doing this simply because he doesn’t like how many people have blocked him personally

Taylor Swift blocked him and he can't have that
- He’s grumpy that she won’t see any additional jokes he makes about impregnating her

JUST. LEAVE. TWITTER.

I've practically been groveling begging my girlfriend to switch.
Its not that bad just ignore the ads
Yeah I don't go in replies because it's always bots
There's still some things on there
She didn't really catch onto mastodon, discoverability is the problem imo. May try getting her onto bluesky even though it wouldn't be my pick. Some people just like whatever they currently have more than change - which maybe not being able to block like EVERY OTHER media platform may be a big enough change.
- Basically nothing I follow is on anything else because they need the numbers. The few people that are just copy their twitter posts and never actually engage.
- Problem is people have gotten used to centralized platforms
But ..the porn...
- By all means, keep posting and perusing porn on the platform, when that and Elon will be all that's left on Twitter, it'll be ok.
A lot of people have professional reasons to be on Twitter. If you're trying to promote a business you need to be where the people are and none of the alternatives have anywhere near Twitter's size.

Reminder: if you still have an account with that fucko’s service-

You support everthing he does.

I’ve kept my account because it’s a sought after username. Deleting it would allow some grifter to take it over. It also predates both Elmo’s and the original Twitter accounts.
I’ve not posted anything under it since the third party apps were blocked.
Reminder: if you have american citizenship, all support everything those fucko's do
- People aren't born on Twitter.
- I promise you: you’re not harassing him. You ARE however, supporting him by having an account.

If the block feature goes away, I guarantee it will come back for - at the very least - the highest tier of paid accounts almost immediately afterwards.

I can't imagine any of the large corps that still use Xitter for customer communication will be happy not being able to block serial trolls. Or people with legitimate grievances who won't go away.

the block function will block that account from engaging with, but not block seeing, a public post
- Could be worse. I never liked the idea of blocking "hiding" your content from other people to begin with. It makes it too easy to give trolls the confirmation they succeeded in getting under your skin, encouraging them to make another account to continue harassing their victim.
Hopefully when Musk does this it will convince my addicted friends to drop the platform when their stalkers can all suddenly contact them again.
Or maybe it’ll get the EU to ban the platform like Brazil did.

I'm pretty sure both the App Store and the Google Play Store both require social media apps to have a block feature. Will be interesting to see what happens if he goes through with this.

The delete account button is still there.

I'd say "for now", but at least we've got the EU protecting us from that possibility.

As much as I despise Musk and Twitter and hope that both die a painful death, what is actually proposed here is honestly a change for the better: It’s not about preventing people from blocking users, it’s about blocked users being able to see public posts, which they could also see by just logging out. This is being honest about what a block does and avoids giving people a wrong sense of privacy that they simply don’t have on the platform. From what I’ve heard there is a possibility to post for followers-only which in combination with requiring approval to follow and that isn’t going away here either…

Twitter massively reduced visibility for logged-out users, so just logging out doesn't help, you have to log into a different account. This additional fraction reduces the amount of harassment a lot. Not sure that being "more honest" is worth the price, especially when an info box could achieve the same without making harassment easier.
- Twitter massively reduced visibility for logged-out users,
  I know, but it still didn’t fully remove it.
  Not sure that being “more honest” is worth the price
  The thing is that there really is no price, nor was there ever one. Your suggestion that you think there is demonstrates that the way blocking worked gave people dangerously wrong ideas. It’s about being clear to people what they can and cannot expect. Anything else is ACTUALLY dangerous.
- Please read again what he changed and then try to figure out why your rationale is clearly not what this is about.

I thought Twitter was once forced but a court to enable blocking for all users against all users. Isn't this why we are able to block advertisers?

i seem to remember something similar. and blocking advertisers seems like it should be common law but i guess chrome killing adblockers takes predesence.

Remember to contact your political representative and express your concerns on any public organization account having an account on twitter. Also contact any journali of a media you use to read/watch and express the same concern.

Once politics and journalists get out of twitter is game over.

At this point if you're still on Shitter you kinda deserve whatever you get

I agree that X is enemy territory now, but in a world where billionaires can buy up all the major means of communication, it doesn't feel like enough to just close up our accounts and move on. They can follow us wherever our accounts go and buy platforms out from under us. Lemmy and Mastodon are slightly better as open decentralized platforms, but they still could be attacked by Musk if he had the initiative to.
- I'm saying it now: Get an amateur radio license and pay ARRL dues. We're going to need to protect that bandwidth.

Why the fuck does elon want to remove the block button on twitter like WHY????

So people can't block him, I imagine.
- That was the one action I took on Twitter after creating an account before my account got banned.
  I needed to create an account to check a local source for updates. So I did. I also decided to look around on Twitter to see what I was "missing". Saw a bunch of Musk stuff and instantly knew I didn't want to see any of it. So I blocked him.
  In a few weeks, when I clicked a Twitter link, it said my account had been banned for suspicious activity. It had a secure password and this was its second log-in ever (no posts, comments, reactions, etc).
- Pretty sure you already can't block him specifically, I'm not on Xitter but have heard from several people this is the case.
So he can tell women how he will give them babies or horses.
Otherwise how the bullies can continue to belittle the victim behind their backs?
Switching to throwaway accounts is boring

You can always count on this twat to do the dumbest, shittiest thing he can.

I feel Musk is an experiment testing what would happen if you gave an Internet troll of middling intelligence billions of dollars.

People need to get the fuck off twitter.

I have started to actively avoid brands, journalists etc. who still use Twitter as their primary social media presence.

Meanwhile, everybody will continue to refuse to leave the platform, further showing Elon that there is no price too high for people.

I swear I've read this exact headline a year or so ago already.

He keeps floating it, but hasent done it yet.
They clearly have internal data that top alt right posters are getting blocked too much for Musk's tastes, so here it is again.
Everythings made up, and the headlines don't matter.

Sacre bleu! It's almost like the free speech warrior does not know that the other aspect of free speech besides speaking freely is being able to choose whom to listen to! Does he think free speech means being forced to listen to specific people speak?

Surprised. Pikachu. Face.

I swear sometime he really seems like he is personally trying to kill twitter/x/xitter whatever it’s called.

Bet both my ovaries he just wants to stop using apt to look at all the people who blocked him

He could simply make his account invulnerable to it if that was his goal, no there's a deeper reason why he's making the change. Likely because he realizes too many people are blocking the alt-right users part of his paying simp army.
- you putting an awful lot of faith into the turd in cans intelligence

But I need that to block the 15 bots that follow me each day

I mean, Twitter's blocking policy goes way too far... but axing them completely? I dunno about that one chief.

Everthing he does is a win for them.

lol, what?

Journalist James Ball noted that this is not the first time that Musk has made similar threats to reimagine the block function, suggesting it may be a false alarm.
- But hey, at least we got to sell more ad space by printing another article about it...

Where's the "CALL ME THE MEME LORD" meme

A browser plugin bringing the functionality back would probably do well.

Does really seem that stalkers are often overlooked by devs, so it's great to see something that finally caters to them for once. Said no one ever.

But he'll still have a block button. He's a real Republican now.