Its use of a single letter app name did, too, and we see how quickly they bent the rules to accommodate the name change.
Both Apple and Google benefit from Twitter “nazifying” their users so they vote Repug and pay zero taxes. They’ll never do shit.
Bing bing bing…
We’ve got a winner!
Wait, bing is Nazi too?!?
Does Microsoft like taxes?
Yeah, they support taxes. They just only support other people/organizations/companies paying them, not Microsoft.
They might for the PR
Oh there will be a meeting where they weigh PR vs propaganda costs. If Twitter becomes Truth Social 2.0 it fails. You gotta keep the libs/lefties in it in order to redpill em.
Chances are they’ll just have another Pride Week to cover it.
Exactly my thoughts, the rules are bullshit if they are not equal for everybody.
like a two tier justice system? but that would be unfair!
The single letter name exception is basically everything you need to know. It’s all bullshit.
Report it.
Probably won’t make a difference, but wouldn’t it be great if the app stores removed them for violations?
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Porque no los dos?
Why not all three?
Waarom niet alle vier?
Warum nicht alle fünf?
Pourquoi pas les deux ?
Done! Thanks for the idea.
LOL over there there’s a crazy concentration of toxic people, take out the block?
Also how all those politicians that block hundreds of people a day can continue to use the platform?
oh him and his buddies will still enjoy blocking undesirables. this whole stunt is just so everyone has to read every stupid thought that comes out of his stupid mouth.
Its all part of the plan. EM does one outrageous thing each day to constantly stay in the news cycle. The ego must be fed.
Oscar Wilde described this mentality in The Picture of Dorian Gray
“There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.”
Wait until people and brands start getting spammed with @s full of porn or CSAM and they can’t block the person tweeting it at them.
I believe you could use block to prevent other people’s shit from showing up in your feeds that other people see. My account is there, pointing at my mastadon account, but I deleted the app from my phone last December, so it doesn’t really matter to me what happens on that site. But, it seems wild that a person can spam your feed with goatse and you can’t do anything about it.
Mark my words. He’ll dial this back to only blue checkmarks can block. Dont wanna be harassed by nazis, pay me.
I can’t imagine that still won’t violate both store policies.
They will say dm blocking is enough
I’m kinda surprised this wasn’t the original announcement. I figured it would just move to a paid feature. Maybe the initial tweet (or whatever the fuck we call an X) was just to get attention.
Pretty sure he did it just to get attention and then dial back cause he “heard the people”
And then everyone will cheer for such a revolutionary feature.
Getting rid of the block function is like trying to run email without a spam filter. Elon musk/ Twitter was already out of control. Now they’ve completely lost their minds, even more than they already had.
Imagine being excited about publicly announcing the deletion of a critical feature. Have you even seen such a brazen and naked attempt at control from a CEO or corporation? Seriously, name one. Name one company that has done this sort of thing.
Any other company that would even attempt to remove a critical feature like that would try to sugarcoat it with an apology letter about how it was a tough decision, or have a bulleted list of reasons why they were forced to remove the feature.
No, not this guy. Just a blind, unfiltered matter-of-fact tweet. No explanation. No apologies. No signs of any remorse.
Name. One. Company. Who. Has. Done. This.
The apology letter is a bug, not a feature. I want more companies to just openly and unapologetically say, “this is what we’re doing, and not everyone is going to like it, but it’s what we believe is the right thing, and we’re doing it.” No one needs more bullshit in their lives. I don’t mind that he isn’t giving me a bullshit apology. I mind that he’s a lunatic and his ideas are stupid.
There’s a stark difference between standing up for your decision with detailed justifications and making random crazy changes promoted with a single tweet.
There is no “they”. There is only Muskrat.
The Elongated one?
There’s still mute but that weirdly makes things worse - now you mute someone but they can still reply and interact with your tweets except you can’t see it. So the abusers can just spam the shit out of you, doxing and w/e and you’ll never know.
What a trash service. I literally don’t know anyone who wouldn’t be net happier in life if they just deleted Twitter.
I would love to see Apple remove “X” from the App Store. I hope they have the balls to do it.
It’s not like they can’t buy out Musk several hundred times over.
I hope they do something about this though. being able to block someone is like a core feature of a social media app.
I’m worried for people who have their abusers blocked…
Absolute joke. It’s also funny how people will bitch about twitter on Twitter but refuse to move to mastadon. No one like to be the first to do it, they need to be with the herd
You can’t expect Elon to read terms and conditions. He’s a very busy man doing busy man things. It’s not like reading ever cost him billions of dollars.
They’ll change the rules to accommodate lord Elon.
To be fair, Musk said you’d still be able to mute users, which means you wouldn’t see any of their posts or replies, but they can see your posts.
It’s like you’re shadow banning them from your own app experience lol
So stalking, a much better outcome. Thank you overlord muskrat.
It’s not like blocking was stopping that, since you could view the feed of a user who blocked you by just opening a link to their profile in incognito mode.
Twitter started requiring log-ins just before the rate limits started. Which made Twitter DDoS itself because websites with embedded tweets no longer worked. Hence the rate limits because Elon’s a dumbass.
Musk is dumb, but so is equating looking at publicly available tweets with stalking
He’s a stalker, so this makes sense.
Doesn’t really matter that much X is pretty much useless unless you pay Elon. Of course nose skin off my nose, I stopped using twitter back in 2016 when trump started showin his true colors after taking office.
So, do we know if this means users have to have the ability, or the people who run the app? Seems vaguely worded.
