If people have been annoying you, and you’ve been blocking them on Twitter, they may soon begin to annoy you again because Elon Musk has decided to set his people free.
Elon Musk announced on Friday that his social networking platform X would discontinue a feature that allows users to restrict postings from certain accounts.
“Block will be removed as a ‘feature,’ except for DMs,” Musk wrote on Twitter, now X.
He stated that the ability for “direct messages” between users of the social media network, formerly known as Twitter, will remain available.
The feature is used to limit platform interaction with specific accounts.
Musk has often stated that his modifications are motivated by a desire for free speech, and he has lashed out at what he perceives as the threat to free expression posed by shifting cultural sensitivities.
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Since the businessman paid $44 billion for the social media network last October, its advertising income has crumbled.
This is partly due to the company’s softer approach to preventing hate speech and the reappearance of previously deleted far-right accounts.
Hate speech has grown on the site, according to the NGO Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH).
‘A Desire For Free Speech’
However, X disagrees with the findings and is suing the CCDH.
Musk restored former US President Donald Trump’s Twitter account in December, though Trump has yet to return to the network.
In early 2021, the ex-president was barred from Twitter for his role in the January 6 attack on the US Capitol by a gang of his followers aiming to overturn the results of the 2020 election.
According to media sources, X just reactivated artist and designer Kanye West’s account, which had been suspended for about eight months.
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Last November, West, who now goes as Ye, shared an image that appeared to represent a swastika interwoven with a Star of David, prompting Musk to suspend the artist from the platform.
Musk has often stated that his modifications are motivated by a desire for free speech.
He has lashed out at what he perceives as the threat to free expression posed by shifting cultural sensitivities.
