The way “block” works on Twitter is different than most platforms.
Block let’s you stop people from replying to your comments and posts, so you can spread misinformation and block people calling it out. It’s censorship anyone can use.
Twitter will still have mute, which let’s you filter all of someone’s posts so you don’t have to see them.
What’s changing, is now if someone makes up misinformation, gets called out, and asks for a source they can’t just block the other poster to make it look like they gave up.
100% no website should use blocks the way Twitter did, it only enables BS.
The abuse of the block feature is a problem yes, I too was a victim of “you’re wrong I’m right shut up blocked”.
But blocking can be useful too: if you disgrace someone and their posts? you can block them, someone is arrasing you? you can block them. (Arrassing post/comments wise, on private messages block will remain)
An issue can be fix by not removing the feature itself, like reporting miss information.
Regarding of the mute, is not exactly the same: if I mute someone, that someone can still comment under my posts, wich is the main reson I used to use the block, for not having imbeciles who thinks I’m an alien in the comment section.
I think the way twitter block used to work was a sword with two blades, useful in many cases but easily abusible.
The way “block” works on Twitter is different than most platforms.
Block let’s you stop people from replying to your comments and posts, so you can spread misinformation and block people calling it out. It’s censorship anyone can use.
Twitter will still have mute, which let’s you filter all of someone’s posts so you don’t have to see them.
What’s changing, is now if someone makes up misinformation, gets called out, and asks for a source they can’t just block the other poster to make it look like they gave up.
100% no website should use blocks the way Twitter did, it only enables BS.
The abuse of the block feature is a problem yes, I too was a victim of “you’re wrong I’m right shut up blocked”.
But blocking can be useful too: if you disgrace someone and their posts? you can block them, someone is arrasing you? you can block them. (Arrassing post/comments wise, on private messages block will remain)
An issue can be fix by not removing the feature itself, like reporting miss information.
Regarding of the mute, is not exactly the same: if I mute someone, that someone can still comment under my posts, wich is the main reson I used to use the block, for not having imbeciles who thinks I’m an alien in the comment section.
I think the way twitter block used to work was a sword with two blades, useful in many cases but easily abusible.
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