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Musk’s plan to axe X's block button is a real win for stalkers and abusers. (www.opendemocracy.net)

submitted 2 months ago by 101@feddit.org to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] Iloveyurianime@ani.social 22 points 2 months ago (3 children)

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

[–] NikkiDimes@lemmy.world 35 points 2 months ago (2 children)

So people can't block him, I imagine.

[–] otp@sh.itjust.works 14 points 2 months ago

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).

[–] Tamo240@programming.dev 8 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Pretty sure you already can't block him specifically, I'm not on Xitter but have heard from several people this is the case.

[–] Killer@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

Nah you can still block him

[–] Ostrichgrif@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

A friend has told me you can block Elon but his tweets still appear on your timeline as if you haven't. He still uses Twitter and the only way he manages it is by blocking every blue check. He has 28,000 blocked accounts now...

[–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

I just deleted the app from my own phone and locked my account, I moved my microblogging activity to Mastodon, and also using Lemmy more and more.

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 16 points 2 months ago

So he can tell women how he will give them babies or horses.

[–] Wispy2891@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Otherwise how the bullies can continue to belittle the victim behind their backs?

Switching to throwaway accounts is boring