That Elon Musk wants to radically change the policy of X (formerly Twitter) is no secret. Apparently, the tycoon intends to give a complete facelift to implement his own mechanics, but the truth is that he is inflaming the discontent of many users, who do not agree with the decisions he is making. Without going any further, the privacy protection that so characterized this social network is gradually fading with a controversial proposal.
If you are a user of In fact, there are times when you may receive threats and insults from third parties, so you decide to end that communication with the blocking options that the application offers you, in such a way that your security is reinforced without them contacting you again. with you.
Consequently, another way to become totally immune from other users is that they do not have the possibility of seeing your profile, including everything you publish, just as happens in other social tools, such as Instagram or Facebook, where even you can protect your activity without needing to block anyone. However, Twitter, now transformed into X, is undergoing changes that are causing strong controversy and one of them has to do with the new blocking measures.
A change for the worse and without much effect
Until now, blocks on X consisted of preventing that individual from contacting you again and, at the same time, preventing them from seeing everything you publish and post. Well, Elon Musk announced that all this was going to change, so that when a blockage occurs on the platform, all the published content will still be able to be seen.
The theoretical causes of why this conclusion has been reached are not known, since in practice this new blocking system is going to be much more harmful for all those affected who have wanted to protect their privacy and the reality is that this return of Nut could mean more cyberbullying.
Although it is not recent news, since this notice was announced in September, it is true that this modification is already beginning to be implemented and experimented in certain countries. From the profile of the X engineering team, the implementation of the new blocking function has been announced, which is supposedly being carried out partially.
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@XEng
We’re starting to launch the block function update https://t.co/qNYIudCrqb
November 3, 2024 • 05:44
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Be that as it may, this situation may cause protests among the user community, as happened a few years ago, who will not hesitate to demonstrate to reverse the change. On the contrary, Musk, with the expression of a succulent “it was about time it happened”, is convinced that this is the best way to continue using the application to find out about the publications, even if that profile has pressed the block button . There is no doubt that the blocking option is losing great value for the majority of active accounts on X and the results will be seen very soon.
