Over at Twitter, Musk is deleting the "Block" option except for DMs. Given the increasing numbers of extremists there, this is guaranteed to piss off all kinds of people who routinely get trolled. Based on experience and observation, journalists are among them.

When will journalists realize they should leave that vile platform, and bring their followers to better places like this one?

Maybe now?

@dangillmor
I think blocking was mostly used by Trolls on Twitter. Perhaps removing it completely was a mistake, but it was abused. See the argument in the thread here: https://primal.net/e/note1wm8h3d9d6j9vd5e80h0kt5atcvt3wsjep753ke8e0trzll3haeyqrwr687
bblfish

Here is the #Wired story from 1997 of how the first computer social network The Well was destroyed by deleting of posts A key passage: > On July 5, 1992, he logged on and executed a mass scribble over the next three days. The mass scribbling tool had been written a few years earlier by Andy Beals in a burst of anger at The Well. Mass scribble allowed you to easily erase all your comments in a topic, no matter when they were written. This time, while Mandel erased only his own postings, he cast a wider net across The Well, far beyond his earlier targets of the Weird and Future conferences. This time, he went from conference to conference and deleted nearly everything he had posted in each one.