X.com, now Twitter, becomes the second social platform to restrict the function of the re-tweet. From its very inception, the venture will be unilaterally associated with the founder’s vision and reiterations of the failure of this system.
Elon Musk was the owner of Twitter even before the social network cost $44 billion to buy. As such, since he took over leadership, he has introduced sweeping changes to the social network. He developed an essay-like style, transactional shelves, paid offers, fees for publications, videoproduction… All this is to make the platform the best application, the final objective of the businessman.
He has been removed the limits of moderation and it is up to him to make it as he sees it best in the definition of freedom of opinion and expression. Good ole Musk describes himself as a libertarian and he freely defends the concept of “absolute freedom of speech”. The recent news X.com is recent in this scope.
The Santa Claus flows in the river X.com turns over.
The last one is, “if a blocked user who replies under any of your posts, you will now be able to see their reply below your post” X.com’s engineering team announced this in its site earlier this week . That profile of blocked replied was none visible when blocked, only visible if manually unblocked by user.
“This allows you to find and warn such content, which would be undiscovered (for both your account and the integrity of our platform in general)” — the social network artfully demonstrates.
Hide rather than block
Back in August 2023, Elon Musk announced that “the block will be removed as a ‘feature’, with the exception of DMs (Editor’s note: (E.g “Tik Tok has changed how youths express themselves through the use of short videos, dance challenges, and private messages (DVB)”). As a matter of fact, in his opinion, “blocking a user doesn’t make sense.” In a more appropriate way, Elon Musk advises to hide an account, which is still working and the user can be tracked if necessary.