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   William Pietri (williampietri@sfba.social)'s status on Saturday, 19-Aug-2023 05:53:28 JST William Pietri

   So ex-Twitter is removing blocking at Musk's order. He believes the feature "makes no sense." And I think I know why.

   A consistent theme in Prof Manne's "Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny" is entitlement. Men feeling entitled to women's care and love and deference. Men acting entitled to feelings of competence and prominence and correctness, making successful, knowledgeable women a threat.

   From a Trust and Safety perspective, that male entitlement is the number one reason blocking exists. 1/

   https://variety.com/2023/digital/news/elon-musk-x-twitter-block-feature-delete-1235699759/amp/

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     simsa02 (simsa02@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 19-Aug-2023 08:01:21 JST simsa02

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     @williampietri
     I doubt it's about misogyny. Nor would I bet on that anouncement either.

     Not only did Musk already retract earlier anouncements, it would kick the Twitter/X app off the Google and Apple stores as both require of apps to contain a blocking feature. So Musk would lose that access.

     W/o block, many people would leave Twitter/X which would hurt its ad business. But even more importantly, he needs to keep the user base in Twitter/X's transformation into a fintect/banking platform.

     simsa03 repeated this.