So "X" - nothing to see here. Elon's in control - Part XXX

Sure, scammers won't buy blue ticks if people can just block them.

Another great example of Musk making twitter work to suit him instead of users.

Undoubtedly, this will result in a very public f*ck-up involving a high profile user and it'll be quietly rolled back.

My god, that is mind blowing

Musk is an incredibly blinkered person who presumes his feeling and those in his bubble are what the rest of the users also want.

He hates how many people have blocked him and those dumb enough to pay for the check mark.

Turns out the block button is required by both Apple and Android Stores as part of their terms of service so he won't be removing it.

Looks like another embarrassing climbdown for him...

I imagine Elon and his fanbois would posit that by using the block feature, you are restricting someone's freedom of speech.

And he is a free speech warrior so.......

Concerning.

You know, it could be a reason as stupid as not wanting people blocking him. When the twitter algorithm got released we found out that it artificially boosted Musk's tweets by a factor of 1,000, while hiding important news stories like the Ukraine invasion. He was the only user I had blocked. Im sure many, many others had him blocked too.

That doesn't mean the individual users have to have the ability toblock other uses from seeing them, but that they can report abuse, and a mod or some other system can block abusers

Of course, that would mean Twitter would be taking on the burden of moderation and are now responsible for taking swift action to respond reports of abuse and harassment. I can see courts ruling that Twitter need to either restore the block function or spend a lot more money on top down content moderation.

If the block button was changed to just stop people from replying but no longer prevented the from reading the tweets then Maybe Musk might have a leg to stand on, but he's basically unleashed the dregs of psychos and stalkers and bot armies loose to kill off whatever was left of Twitter as a useful platform

Blocking hurts blue tick users. His taking over was with promises to make all voices as prominent as each other (for a fee). However anyone willing to pay for that likely has nothing good to say and as they were the ones getting boosted they were getting blocked before people even read their posts.

A lot of his supporters are those who feel like no one is listening and his taking over was seen as a way to force people to listen to them. Blocking hurts that as people really, really don't want to listen to them (generally with good reason).

Someone needs to explain GDPR to Space Karen

The old holding up a newspaper with todays date on it and saying "Honestly, I'm fine. Please do what they say."

(I'm assuming that headline is a parody)

New game at twitter, good cop bad cop between Linda and musk. Both saying contradictory things to shape it as it fits