CEO of X, the company formerly known as Twitter, says the feature will remain only for direct messages.
Blocking a user on the platform prevents that user from interacting with an account — such as seeing a user’s tweets or addressing them directly. The blocked user knows they have been blocked. Muting an account, meanwhile, prevents a user from seeing the account’s posts. Muted accounts do not know someone has muted them.function would lead to more harassment on a platform that already struggles to contain abuse.
“The removal of the block function would effectively make harassment an official feature of Twitter/X, taking away what is the only setting that can reduce impact,” Tanja Bueltmann, a historian at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow,. “It is an extremely ignorant and privileged perspective to think that blocking makes no sense.”
Such a change would represent the latest example of how Musk has transformed the platform that he bought for $44 billion in October. Shortly after taking over the platform, Musk
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